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BY j. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA 
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Copyright, 1903, 

BY 

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To the Memory of 

My Honored Father and Mother, 

WILLIAM AND RACHEL McMASTERS LARIMER, 

And to my Husband, 

JAMES ROSS MELLON, 

These pages are affectionately dedicated 

by 

RACHEL HUGHEY LARIMER MELLON 



preface 



/^Jfci^HE desire to place before the members of my family 
/ 1 and their descendants some facts concerning our 
^^i^ progenitors has been accomplished to a greater 
degree than I thought possible when I undertook the task. 
Added zest was given to my researches when I became a 
member of the Society of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution, and step by step the old Bible records, wills, 
deeds, and state papers have been searched. I have en- 
deavored to give merely short sketches of my forefathers, — 
Larimer, Hughey, McMasters, Sheakley, McCurdy, Creigh- 
ton, Irwin, King, and McLaughlin, — who settled in Lancaster, 
York, and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, and the journeyings 
back to the old homesteads and churches of these counties has 
been a great pleasure to me. Differing from the trend of most 
family histories, I have attempted to trace each line of ancestry 
as far as is possible, without giving prominence to any particular 
line ; they are, therefore, left open to further research, with the 
hope that in each family some one may be able to supply addi- 
tional information.* The members of our early families were 
descended from the Covenanters, Dissenters, and Reformed 
Church of the Huguenots, and came to Pennsylvania to 
enjoy religious freedom. They owned large farms in Lan- 
caster and York Counties, and were loyal patriots. God-fearing 



* Any person having authentic records of the surnames of the wives of 
Robert or Thomas Larimer will confer a great favor by forwarding such infor- 
mation ; for I feel that we are but making a beginning of our American family 
records. Address Rachel Hughey Larimer Mellon, 400 North Negley Ave- 
nue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

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preface 



and upright, and prominent in their locaHties. As the march 
ot civiHzation moved westward after the war of the American 
Revolution, members of every family, without an exception, 
settled west of the Allegheny Mountains. 

Grateful acknowledgment is due to those friends whose 
efforts have enabled me to collect and arrange the data herein 
presented. Among these are Mr. Karl A. Saeger, of New 
York ; Dr. L. C. Loomis, of Washington, D. C. ; Mrs. Eliza 
McMasters King ; Mrs. Mary McMasters Jones ; Mrs. Annie 
E. Jones, Mrs. J. McF. Carpenter, and Thomas Galey, of 
Pittsburgh ; William H. H. Larimer, of Kansas City ; Edwin 
K. Larimer, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa ; Thomas McMasters 
Larimer, of Leavenworth, Kansas ; Mr. Calvin Hamilton ; 
Miss Virginia McCurdyand Mr. Charles McCurdy, of Gettys- 
burg ; Mr. Watson EUmaker, of Lancaster ; Mr. H. E. Marker, 
of Greensburg; and Mrs. Louis McFarlane, of Circleville, 
Pennsylvania. 

And I also wish to acknowledge with appreciation my in- 
debtedness to Miss Minnie Foglf Mickley, ex-Registrar Gen- 
eral of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and gene- 
alogist, of Mickleys, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, for her 
valuable assistance in preparing this work. 

Rachel Hughey Larimer Mellon 

September, 1903 




Contents 



The Larimer Family 

The Sheakley Family 

The McCurdy Family 

The Creighton Family 

The McMasters Family 

The Hughey Family 

The King Family 

The McLaughlin Family 

The Irwin Family 

War Record 

Marriages 

Deeds 

Wills 

Addenda . 

Index of Names 



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%iQt of HUustrations 



The Larimer Arms ...... Frontispiece 

Arms, Lorimier, Neufchatel ...... Title-page 

Genealogical Chart .... 

Old French Arms, Larmor, Bretagne 

The Adams County home of the Larimers 

William Larimer, Jr., No. 23 

Rachel McMasters, No, 17 (Mrs. William Larimer, Jr.) . 

Fac-simile of William Larimer, Jr.'s, note to President Lincoln 

Conestoga wagon, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia . 

Rachel H. Larimer, No. 42 (Mrs. James Ross Mellon) 

Suburban home of William Larimer, Jr., No. 23 

Four generations, — Judge Thomas Mellon, James Ross Mellon, William 

Larimer Mellon, Matthew Mello 
Homestead of William Larimer, Sr., No, 
The Larimer brothers . 
The Sheakley homestead 
The Thaddeus Stevens house 
Old tavern-stand adjoining Sheakley farm 
Ann Sheakley (Mrs. William Larimer, Sr.) 
James McCurdy's homestead 
Lane leading to Robert McCurdy's homestead 
William Creighton's homestead 



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The John McMasters homestead 

Chair of John McMasters, No. 6 . 

Eliza Ann McMasters, No. i6 (Mrs. Hugh D. King) 

Mary McMasters, No. 23 (Mrs. B. F. Jones) 

Annie E. Larimer, No. 38 (Mrs. T. M. Jones) 

Rachel Hughey, No. 15 (Mrs. John McMasters) . 

John Hughey' s homestead and spring-house .... 

Silhouette of Rachel Hughey, No. 15. 

Robert King's homestead ....... 

Silhouette of Elizabeth King, No. 9 (Mrs. John Hughey) . 

Fac-simile of Rev. John King's sermon notes .... 

James Sheakley, No. 20, Governor of Alaska, 1893-97 . 

Robert McCurdy, No. 14, Associate Judge of Adams County, 1869-73 

Calvin Hamilton, superintendent Gettysburg Cemetery 

Thomas McCurdy Vincent, brigadier-general by brevet. Picture taken 

in major's uniform, 1865 

William Larimer, Jr., No. 23, brigadier-general National Guard, 1849 

Thomas McMasters, No. 20 ..... . 

Mellon family group ........ 

W. L. Mellon and family 

Sarah Lucille Mellon in her mother's wedding-gown, bonnet, and parasol 

Old oak landmark on Robert McCurdy farm .... 

Silhouette of John McMasters, No. 6 . 

Tombstone of Robert King ....... 

Old Leacock Church, Lancaster County ..... 

Arms, Lorimier, etc ....... . 

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James McCurdy 
Will probated May 2, 1771, 
Salisbury township, Lancas- 
ter County ; b. about 1 690, 
in Bushmills, Ireland. 



Cooke, 

arrived with her hi 
about 1717. Set! 
Lancaster County. 



William Creighton 

J. in Leacock township, Lancaster County, 

Pennsylvania ; will probated 

1790, in Lancaster County. 



d. after 1790, in Leacock 
township, Lancaster County. 



Patrick McM 
'. in Scotland ; fled t( 
land (Drumsnod) ; ,/. 
county Down, Ireland, 



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Robert Larimer = Sarah 



township, York 
County,* Pcnn- 
sylvania. 



b. in Berwick 
township,York 
County,* 
Pennsylvania ; 
d. after 1772. 



William Sheakley=Jannet Moor, 
d. about 1 8 1 o, widow of Jai 
in Mount Pleas- j Moor, Jr., Mo 
ant township, j Pleasant townsh 
York County,* York Count; 
Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. 



Thomas Larimer = Catherine - 



\. in Berwick township, 
York County,* Pennsyl- 
vania ; d, 1816, in 
Mount Joy township, 
York County,* Pennsyl- 



b. in Berwick township, 
York County,* Pennsyl- 
vania ; J. in Mount Joy 
township, York County,* 



Robert McCurdy = Ann Creighton, 
b. 1716, in Salisbury township, of Leacock township ; ^. aboui 

Lancaster County ; d. May 16, \ I 7 3 8 ; ot. May 31, I 76 1 ; d. 
1 8 10, in Cumberland town- j before 18 10, in Cumberlanc 
ship, Adams County, near township, Adams County, neai 
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 



John McMasters = - 



(. 1760 ; m. in Mount Pleasant town- 
ship, York County ;* will made June 
10, 1 8 1 1 , in Franklin township, 
Adams County ; d. 18 I 2, at Gettys- 
burg, Pennsylvania. 



Margaret McCurdy, 
b. 1762, in Mount Pleasant 
township, York County ;* d. 
May 12, 1825; bur. in 
Union Cemetery, Gettysburg, 
Pennsylvania. 



■ McWhinney = , 

Board Mills ; I i. in county 
in Ireland. , Down, Ireland. 



Thomas McMasters = Rachel McWhinney, 
1754; m. in Board Mills, Lis- I b. about 1756, 



burn, Ireland ; ■■/. Jan. 26, 1835. 
7;. (2) Sarah Cam Duff, b. 1762 j 
d. December 11, 183J, in Board 
Mills, Lisburn, Ireland. 



county Down, 
land i d. about 1784, 
in county Down, 
Ireland. 



Joseph Hughey=Jean Irwin (or Erwin), 
;. about 1707, in Dru- I i. in Peach Bottom town- 
more township, Lan- ship, Lancaster County ; 
caster County, Pa. ; ] m. March 13, 1737 ; i/. 
will probated October 1 after 1773, in Lancaster 
25. '773' County, Pennsylvania. 



Robert King ■ 
J. 1705 ; d. June 22, 
1 763 ; bur. in Morrison's 
Graveyard, Drumore 

County, Pennsylvania. 



Ann McLaughlin, 
m. .736. in 
Peach Bottom 
township, Lan- 
caster County, 
Pennsylvania. 



John Hughcy = Elizabeth King, 
i. January 31, 1752, in Drumorctown- b. March 10, 1753, 
ship, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ; ! Chestnut Level, Lancaster 



May 2, 1837, in Plum township, 
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania ; bur. 
in Beulah Graveyard. 



County; </. July 29, 1829, 
in Plum township, Alle- 
gheny County, Pennsylva- 



William Larimer, Sr. 
'. 1771, in Mount Joy township, York County,* 

Pennsylvania ; m. 1800 ; d. September 18, 1838 ; 

bur. in Long Run Cemetery, North Huntington 

township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. 
n. ( 1 ) Martha McNease, of Adams County ; b. 

1771 ; d. January 13, 1798. 



= AnnSheakley (2d wife), 

b. May 8, 1783, in Mount Pleasant 
township, York County ;* d. August 
23, 1853 ; bur. in Long Run Cem- 
etery, near Larimer Station, 
gheny County. 



Alle- 



John McMasters = 
b. March 19, 1781, in Board Mills, Lisburn, county 
Down, Ireland; m. March 3, i8io, in Turtle 
Creek, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania ; d. April 
8, 1847, in Turtle Creek, Pittsburgh, Pennsylva- 
nia ; bur. in Beulah Graveyard. 



Rachel Hughey, 
b. September 27, 1784, in 
Plum township, Allegheny 
County ; d. January 2, 
1865, in Turtle Creek, 
Allegheny County. 



William Larimer, Jr. = 
1. October 24, 1809; m. October 
16, 1834; d. May 16, 1875, 
near Leavenworth, Kansas ; bur. in 
Allegheny Cemetery. 



1 
^ Rachel McMasters, 

b. March I 7, 1 8 I 7, at Turtle Creek, 
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania ; d. 
September 16, 1879, '1 Pittsburgh, 
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. 



! County. In the year 1800 York County V 



Rachel H. Larimer == James Ross Mellon. (See T. Mellon and His Times.) 

S) e 6 c e n d a n t s . 



William Larimer Mellon = Mary Hill Tayloi 



Thomas. Sarah Luci 



Mathew Taylor. Rachel Larimer. Margaret. 



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/^■i^HERE has been a great deal written about the Hu- 
/ \ guenot refugees, but really very little of their de- 
^^J^ scendants. It is estimated that in 1660 there were 
over two million Huguenots, the best and thriftiest citizens of 
the old world. In the middle of the sixteenth century over 
four hundred thousand escaped, and many thousands went to 
England, Scotland, Ireland, and America. 

The history of their endurance is among the most remark- 
able records of religious liberty. The persecution of the 
Huguenots, which checked all wholesome developments at 
home, whether religious, literary, or commercial, were favor- 
able to their growth abroad, and we consequently find that in 
hterary and artistic excellence the Huguenots have taken their 
full share. 

In the Revolution we can see traces of their mental and 
moral activity. It may be that their day of influence is not 
yet over, for their history is a standing marvel, illustrating the 
abiding power of strong religious conviction. 

It remained for their descendants to show to France that 
the Huguenot creed goes well with freedom and advance, that 
the religious instinct so deeply implanted in man is a true 
friend to orderly national life. 

Religion which does not abuse its power, a freedom from 
divided allegiance, an appetite for constitutional and intelli- 
gent belief in the sovereignty of the people, — these are the 

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elements which the Huguenots of to-day can bring to the 
service of the republic under which they dwell safely, none 
making them afraid. 

In a list of one hundred and fifty of the early families of 
York County, Rev. Dr. Demorest, in his sketches, or history, 
gives the names of many French Huguenots, including the 
name Larimer, whose children were presented for baptism 
between 1769 and 1793. He says: 

" Whence came all these people ? Their traditions of trustworthiness, 
which we may not call in question, point with few exceptions to New Jersey, 
but I am confident we shall speak more precisely when we say the colony came 
from about New York City." 

The name " Larimer" is variously spelled Larimier, Lori- 
mer, Lormer, Lorimor, Lorimore, Lorrimer, Larmor, Larimer, 
Larimore, Larrimore, Larrimer, and the scribes in the various 
years made the changes that are seen in every branch of the 
family. 

jeitsabctb Xorimicr, of ifrance/ 

married, first, De Paul Emile, Marquis de Braque, Comte de 
Loches, steward and overseer in general of the equipages and 
liveries of his Majesty ; second, Joseph Francois Damas, Mar- 
quis de Ruffey, Brigadier-General, who entered the Boulonnais 
regiment of infantry, as a lieutenant, April second, 1724. He 
there had a company, December twenty-eighth, 1725, and was 
in all the campaigns in Germany and on the Rhine until 1 735. 
Appointed colonel of the same regiment at the death of his 
brother, June eighth, 1736, he took command of the Bavarian 
army, where he was engaged in many actions from March, 



* I have not succeeded in tracing my ancestors in France, but find a great 
deal of history, of which Elizabeth Lorimier's biography is a fair example. 
(See Addenda.) 

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1742, until July, 1743. He assisted in the defeat of General 
Nadasti near Severne ; fought in the affair of Haguenau, and 
at the siege of Fribourg in 1 744 ; served in the army of the 
lower Rhine during the winter and during the following cam- 
paign. He was appointed brigadier of infantry on the first of 
May. He was at the sieges of Mons and St. Guilian in 1 746, 
and at the battle of Raucoux the same year. He went over to 
the Italian army in the month of November, and assisted in 
the defence of Provence until March, 1747, at which time he 
left the army. Encamped at first at Guillestre, June third ; 
on the nineteenth of July he found himself at the assault on 
the defile of Assiette, marched afterwards to the camp of Cas- 
tellane, where he arrived August tenth, and on the twentieth 
went over to the Seine, where he finished the campaign. 
Created brigadier-general January first, 1 743, he resigned from 
the Boulonnais regiment, and was employed by the Italian 
army until August first of the same year. Employed in the 
German army by letters of March first, 1757, he was engaged 
in the battle of Hastenbeck and at the taking of Hanover. 
He returned to France in the month of November, and 
served no more. (Chronologic Milit., tome vii. p. 283.) 

He married, by contract of March seventeenth, 1750, Eliza- 
beth Lorimier. 

In honor of this marriage, the king made a present to the 
Marquis de Ruffey of a pension of two thousand livres, re- 
vertible to his wife. He died in 1 782. (Courcelle, Histoire 
des peers de France, vol. i. p. ^^. ) 



Le Sieur de Lorimier was in the corps of Philibert de Cler- 
mont, surnamed " le Brave Montoison et le chevalier sans 
peur et sans reproche," in his expedition from the Bretagne, 
about the year 1438. (Courcelle, vol. vii. p. 64.) 

Alexander Lorimore, of London, married Anne Thornton, 



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born January thirty-first, 1 656-57, daughter of John Thornton, 
Esq., of Newnham and Brockhall, born 1 589, and his wife 
Anne, who died 1671, daughter and co-heir of Robert Thorn- 
ton, Esq., of Downham, in Norfolk. (Burke's Commoners, 
vol. ii. p. 496.) 

Mary Lorimer, daughter and co-heir of John Lorimer, Esq., 
and relict of William Croon, M.D., married, second, Edward 
Sadlier, second baronet of Temple Dinsley, who died without 
issue in 1 706, when the baronetcy became extinct. Sir Edward 
had previously sold the estate of Temple Dinsley to Benedict 
Ithell, Esq., sheriff of Herts, first George II., from whose 
family it passed by will to the Harwoods and thence to the 
Dartons. (Burke's Commoners, vol. ii. p. 563.) 



The two mottoes of the Larimer arms. Upward and On- 
ward, bear appropriate reference to the spiritual and mundane 
elements symbolized by the crest and the shield respectively. 



The Scotch name Lorimer is from a French word signify- 
ing makers of bridle-bits, stirrups, and other saddlers' iron- 
mongery. 

The first record I can find of the Larimers in York 
County is that of my great-great-grandfather, Robert Larimer 
(born about 1698), who had two hundred acres of land in 
Berwick township, deeded to him by Henry Kinghart, July 
twenty-sixth, 1750. 

Robert Larimer^ died intestate, his administrator Andrew 
Mcllvaine's account being filed in York County, July, 1772. 

His wife's name was Sarah, and his children were Thomas, 
John, William (who died before the administrator's account 
was filed in 1772), Mary, Margaret, Jean, and Robert, a minor. 



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Thomas (bom about 1740), the eldest son of Robert and 

Sarah Larimer, my great-grandfather, married Catherine , 

of Berwick township, York County, where he died in 1816, 
and is buried in what is now Mount Joy township, Adams 
County. 

The children of Thomas and Catherine Larimer are, as 
his will mentions, as follows: William, Thomas, Margaret, 
Mary, Sidney, Nancy, and Elizabeth. 

Thomas Larimer and his wife Catherine (of Berwick town- 
ship) lived in Mount Joy township, York County, where he 
had a farm of two hundred and fifty acres in 1 779, He served 
in the German regiment during the Revolutionary War. They 
were stanch members of the Presbyterian Church. 

The eldest son William, my grandfather, was born in 
Mount Joy township, Adams County in the year 1771. He 
married, first, Martha McNease, who died January thirteenth, 
1 798, aged twenty-seven years ; second, Ann Sheakley, of 
Adams County. He removed to Westmoreland County 
before, 1798, and built the Larimer Homestead near Larimer. 
He died in September, 1838, and is buried in the Long Run 
Presbyterian graveyard, North Huntington township, West- 
moreland County. 

A little incident in the life of William Larimer, Sr., may 
be of interest to his descendants. He was considered a very 
good business man, but unexpected questions often arise, 
as was no doubt so in this case. I think it will explain 
matters by quoting two letters, — one from Abram Horbach 
to William Henry Harrison, and the other from William 
Henry Harrison, " Old Tippecanoe." 

-Tr TT TT " Greensburg, May 27, 1819. 

•' William H. Harrison : 

*' Respected Friend, — I am sorry to state to you the trouble Mr. Larimer 

is put to respecting the black girl he sold you. It appears the sale was not 

legal and an ill-disposed neabor of Mr. Larimer's has maid complaint to our 

court respecting it. Mr. Larimer is here now tending court. There is a bill 

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found against him for the selling of the girl to you, taking her out of this State. 
Mr. Larimer is advised by his Attorney to go on to see you and get the Girl 
back. I feel for Mr. Larimer and in particular for Mrs. Larimer. If you can 
with any propriety let the girl come back you would confer a particular favor 
as I feel somewhat interested. 

♦* I am Sir, Yours Respectfiilly, 

♦' Abram Horbach. 
"To William H. Harrison. 

** Abram Horbach : 

" Dear Sir, — I have received of Mr. Larimer the three hundred and twenty 
dollars which I gave him for the Black Girl, Pricilla, and request you to dehver 
him the bill of sale. 

• ' Your friend , 

'* W. H. Harrison. 
*' North Bend, Ind. 

" 9th June, 1819.' 

Mr. Harrison was evidently on his way home to Indiana 
when this sale was made. 

¥¥ 

Milltam Xarimcr, 3^-, Hlo, 23 

1809-1875 

My father, William Larimer, was born in the old Larimer 
Homestead, Circleville, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, 
on the twenty-fourth day of October, 1809. He married 
Rachel McMasters, of Turtle Creek, Allegheny County. He 
was one of the prominent business men of his day. Larimer 
township in Somerset County, Larimer Station on the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad, at which place he and Hon. John Covode 
organized the Westmoreland Coal Company, which is still 
one of the best in the State ; Larimer Avenue, in Pittsburgh, 
Larimer County in Colorado, Larimer Street in Denver, and 
Fort Larimer in Arkansas were all named in honor of my 
father, and an outline of his hfe, I think, will be interesting to 
his descendants. 



ILLIAM Larimkr, Jr., No. 23 



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His first business enterprise was with his friend and 
neighbor John Irwin, of Irwin, in the Conestoga wagon 
system, by teaming goods between Pittsburgh and Phila- 
delphia ; then by merchandising as partner with his brother- 
in-law, John McMasters, Jr. He was in many of the new 
business enterprises of that time, including banking, and was 
very successful for over twenty years. He was the first presi- 
dent of the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad, treasurer 
of the Ohio and Pennsylvania (now Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne 
and Chicago) Railroad, chief proprietor and creditor of the 
Youghiogheny Slack Water System, chief projector and 
builder of the Remington Coal Railroad at McKee's Rocks, 
and a large shareholder in numerous California gold-mining 
enterprises and overland transportation companies. He identi- 
fied himself with the antislavery movement as an active abo- 
litionist, assisted in the organization of the old Liberal party, 
and supported Birney for President in 1844. From this time 
up to the defeat of General Scott in 1852 he acted with the 
Whig party, and took quite a prominent part in the politics 
of Pennsylvania. He was made major-general of State militia 
in 1852, and was mentioned as a possible candidate for gov- 
ernor. 

He acquired considerable wealth, indeed, a large fortune 
for those times, being uniformly successful in all his enter- 
prises. His public spirit, enterprise, and generosity made him 
hosts of friends. 

After financial difficulties which reached a climax during 
the general business depression in 1854, he determined to start 
anew in the West, and left Pittsburgh for Nebraska in 1855, 
and was shortly after elected to the Legislature of that Territory. 

He took an active part in behalf of Republican principles, 
and the meeting which organized the Republican party in the 
Territory was held at his house in Omaha. 

He moved to Kansas in 1 858, remained a few months, and 



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during the Pike's Peak excitement of that year went to Colo- 
rado. He was one of the founders of the city of Denver, 
built the first house there, was appointed United States Com- 
missioner and Judge of Probate for the First Judicial District 
of the Territory of Colorado, and served for some time. 

He became well known not only in all parts of Kansas, 
but throughout the West, being prominently identified with 
the public interests of Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado for 
more' than twenty years. While in the Kansas State Senate, 
1867-70, it was said of him: "He is earnest in his con- 
victions, conscientious in the discharge of his duties, and 
zealously labors for the good of the people he represents." 

He entered the army at the outbreak of the Civil War, 
raised the Third Regiment of Colorado Volunteers, and was 
its first colonel. He served a short time, resigned, and re- 
turned to Kansas, but soon entered the service again as cap- 
tain of General Blunt's body-guard. After the massacre of 
Baxter Springs he was commissioned captain of Company A, 
Fourteenth Kansas Cavalry, by Governor Thomas Carney. 

He was frequently spoken of by the press of the State in 
connection with the gubernatorial chair and United States 
Senatorship. 

He took a prominent part in the Greeley campaign in 
1872, and was the first man to suggest the name of Mr. 
Greeley in connection with the Presidency. 

William Larimer died on the sixteenth day of May, 1875. 
He was a man of ability, genial and companionable, broad- 
minded, and always ready to give the best he had, true to his 
Huguenot descent and principles. To show how ready he 
was to take an active part in the public affairs of his country, 
we quote from the Rocky Mountain News, of Denver, Colo- 
rado, September first, 1862 : 



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MiUiam Xartmcr's Speecb 

" The war meeting held here [Central City, Colorado] , Saturday night 
last, was the largest and most enthusiastic public meeting ever held in the 
Territory. The meeting was scarcely organized when General Larimer was 
called for by the immense crowd in attendance. He came forward and was 
received with hearty cheers and the most kindly feelings. Lights were called 
for that they might see his face. When these were brought the applause was 
renewed. The General arose and spoke nearly as follows : 

*' ' Mr. Chairman and Fellow-Citizens, — I am an old pioneer. I came 
to this country in the fall of 1858. I am one of the first settlers of our Rocky 
Mountain Territory. I wrote one of the first letters ever written from this 
country, — certainly the first ever written from Denver. I had dated my 
letter, the night before, "Golden City," but after writing it we met and 
changed the name to Denver, after our governor (now General Denver), — 
an honor to his country and to his name. Well, Denver is there still, and I 
believe will be for ages to come. 

" ' I have often addressed the people of Colorado ; I like to do it ; they are 
my neighbors and fellow-citizens ; we have been pioneers here together, and 
together we have explored the country. As I remarked, I have written letters 
from this country, and for writing these letters I once came near losing my 
life. I wrote in the winter of 1858-59 that we found gold in the valley 
along the Platte and Cherry Creek, and we were all looking towards the 
mountains, and expected to find a "good thing" there, and that we could 
then dig out from two to five dollars per day. Thousands came here in the 
spring of 1859 expecting to pick up a fortune at once, without labor. They 
came without any preparation for what was before them, and almost without 
clothing and food. There was great suffering, and some even died of starva- 
tion. Coming here as they did, many were disappointed. It could not be 
otherwise. Because I wrote those letters a meeting was held at Arapahoe, at 
which it was resolved to hang me, as well as others who had done the like. 
But, fellow-citizens, they did nothing to me, and here I am to-night. 
[Cheers.] 

"'I am told to-day, all around here, that almost any kind of labor is worth 
three dollars per day, and that many men are making more, and also that the 
mines are doing extremely well. I always had confidence in them, and in 
those who were laboring to develop this country. The American nation has 
no more enterprising people than they ; for them I am proud of Colorado. 

" 'I visited you a year ago with your governor and others, and spoke to you 
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then under very diiFerent circumstances from the present. Never did I sup- 
pose I should stand before you under such different circumstances, and bring 
the message I have for you to-night. Then I came to introduce to you Colo- 
rado's first governor, and to talk with you of your future prospects. You 
received me kindly, but your prospects were gloomy. You had been doing 
well, but had then pretty generally struck the "cap-rock." You were 
spending thousands of dollars and getting no return. [Cries of "That's 
so !"] You were getting discouraged, and were fearful lest you would have 
to give the country up. You bore the frowns of fortune nobly and bravely 
and as best you could, and you have your reward. Well, as I said, the cir- 
cumstances are very different now. As I came up into the mountains to-day 
among you, I found you had got through the "cap-rock;" that the stroke of 
the drill and the hammer and the sound of the blast had not been in vain, and 
that you had struck richer pay than ever before, and I was glad to hear it. 
[Cheers and cries of " That's so!"] That the mines of Colorado are 
inexhaustible is now a fixed fact. 

" * But, Mr. Chairman and fellow-citizens, I must not digress further, but 
hasten to tell you why I have now come among you, and deliver the message 
with which I have been intrusted. Your country and my country has now, 
after seventy years of unequalled, uninterrupted, and untarnished success, got 
down to the *' cap-rock" of her prosperity, and she has sent me to ask your 
help to assist her in getting through it. Fellow-citizens, shall she have it ? 
[Cries of" She shall that !"] Her flag, which has floated on every sea and 
every great navigable river of the globe ; which has been honored and 
respected by every nation of the world, while none were so haughty as to 
wish or dare to insult it ; which has been a protection for her citizens in every 
clime, under whose folds the oppressed of every nation have found a refuge, 
has been insulted and trampled under foot, — not by a foreign foe, but by those 
who owe most to it ; who had been respected abroad because it was their 
national emblem. A great, perfidious, ungrateful, and wicked rebellion has 
broken out. All because Abraham Lincoln was constitutionally and legally 
elected President, and because our Southern brothers, who had been accus- 
tomed from the foundation of the republic to domineer over three millions of 
people whose skin was a shade darker than their own, and to denounce us, 
their Northern brethren, as the mudsills of society and as the inferiors of their 
slaves, and had for many years enjoyed the highest honors of the nation, were 
now stripped of their high positions for a time, and were no longer lords of 
the nation. [Cries of " Hear, hear !"] 

" • Fellow-citizens, I used to be an old line Whig, We used to try, year after 
year, to elect a Whig President, but were almost always defeated. Twice we 

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did succeed, but our Presidents lived but a short time, and soon at best we had 
to give way to our Southern brethren and the Democrats, who were sure to 
beat us at the ballot-box next time, and would immediately abolish the protec- 
tive tariff we had labored so earnestly to establish, and undo everything we had 
done. But fellow-citizens, we did not get angry and rebel when we were 
defeated ; we turned in and helped to support the government as best we 
could, and bore our defeat without complaint. When Lincoln was elected 
our Southern brothers could not bear to lose their power, even temporarily, 
but fired upon our country's flag. What has been done since you all know. 

" ' Your Chairman says you have lost your interest in transpiring events. I 
do not believe it. Every one of you before me has a brother, a relative, or a 
near friend who is engaged in this conflict, and every telegram which flashes 
along the wires brings the news that some one you hold dear has fallen a 
victim. On every battle-field the green grass is growing on the graves of 
those you have loved, but will never see again. There is a sore spot in every 
heart, a vacant seat at every hearth, a mourner at every corner of the street. 
Can you forget, when this is so, and become unmindful, when every mail 
comes laden with its messages of woe ? I think not. [Cries of " Never !"] 

'< < Well, this war has been going on until the present time. Pope and 
Halleck have been sweeping down the Mississippi ; Butler has occupied New 
Orleans ; McClellan has been meeting before Richmond and in the swamps 
of Chickahominy the F.F.V's. All the rest of the South and those wicked 
leaders have been using every exertion to fill up their ranks and swell their 
numbers by conscription, and by every other means, from their more ignorant 
and innocent neighbors. So successful have they been in this that McClellan, 
with the thousands of brave men under his command, has been able to accom- 
plish but little, and, notwithstanding the thousands who have sunk in glorious 
graves there, it has thus far been a drawn battle. 

♦* ' Abraham Lincoln has been trying to preserve the Constitution and the 
Union, sustaining every State in all its rights, whether real or fancied, and to 
leave slavery untouched wherever it existed, believing that the National Gov- 
ernment was not responsible for it. He has been moving slowly, and has 
done everything that could be done to conciliate and assure the South that 
their institution should be untouched. In this course I have been disposed to 
stand by the President. Now I begin to think that I can see the hand of God 
in this matter. Had this war been ended a year ago, slavery would have 
remained untouched ; the millions who have so long been bowed down by 
tyranny and oppression would never have scented the air of freedom and uni- 
versal liberty as it passed on every breeze over the plantations of the South 
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breath, heard its words, drunk in the spirit, and " as the lightning cometh out 
o{ the East and shineth unto the West," so has the light of universal freedom 
flashed tongue to tongue and mind to mind over all the land. 

" ' Already the chains of the bondman begin to fall, and the Almighty is 
ushering in His great "year of jubilee." I now believe that this war is 
never to end until every chain shall fall and every fetter lie broken ; until our 
flag, with every star replaced, shall again float over our nation, with not a 
single bondman beneath its folds. What I want now is help for our country 
in this time of our country's need. When I received my orders to come here 
and raise the Colorado Third I left without scarcely having had time to say 
good-by to my wife and children. Missouri was being overrun with guerillas ; 
Quantrell is reported to be in Jackson County with six thousand men. Price 
has crossed the Mississippi with twenty-five pieces of artillery, and nobody 
knows how many men. Kansas and Nebraska, the gateways and store-houses 
of Colorado, are in danger. They have nobly responded to the call for 
soldiers, but their soldiers are now away down in Arkansas and Tennessee. 
There are none left for home protection ; everybody in Leavenworth is under 
arms ; places of business are closed from three o'clock until seven, and every- 
body is drilling in the ranks. Congress has done much for Colorado. It has 
given us a mint, paid the expenses of two terms of our Legislature, given us 
post-ofiices and mail routes all over this country, and has also given us a rail- 
road, and now asks for soldiers to defend the border. 

*« * The President knows your worth. I was in Washington when the news 
of our victories in New Mexico arrived. The bravery of the Colorado First 
was appreciated. If it had not been for them we should not be here to-night. 
Sibley would have emptied Denver and taken everything valuable here, and 
would to-day have been all over these mountains. General Jim Lane, when 
he sent me here, said, " One regiment from this Territory would be worth two 
from the other States. Kansas troops are good, but Colorado's are better." 
What he said was true. I know it. [Cheers.] The Colorado Second is as 
good, but is not quite full, and now I have come to raise the Colorado Third. 
[Cries of "You shall have it."] I could pick out the number for a regi- 
ment, eight hundred and thirty men, from the crowd before me, but I do not 
want that number from here. The governor has apportioned the Territory, 
and two companies have fallen to this county. It is hard to raise recruits 
where wages are so high, but I have confidence in your patriotism, and I do 
not doubt that you will furnish your quota. I do not say go, but come. I 
am ready if necessary to die for my country on the battle-field. I do not wish 
to follow behind. I want to lead. I want to drill you in the bayonet exer- 
cise. That is what is feared most. [Cheers.] 

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** ' It has been said that here, as well as everywhere else, there have been 
those who sympathized with secession. I hope the time has come when such 
persons have ceased to sympathize with rebellion ; they must know that this 
rebellion will be crushed out. Are there any Jackson men here ? [Cries of 
"There are."] These are the men I want. That old hero said, " The 
Union must and shall be preserved.'" So I say, and I say that the time shall 
again come when the flag of our nation shall float on the breeze over an undi- 
vided Union, with every star thrice brighter than ever, and cleansed from the 
pollution of human bondage, with not a vestige of this great treason left. 

"'Fellow-citizens, I thank you for the kindness with which you have 
received me and listened to me to-night. I am sorry I have not the talent to 
arouse you as I could wish, but such as I am I have devoted myself to my 
country. Good-night.' " 

The following note to President Lincoln, March sixth, 
1861 , is reproduced, with the President's terse reply, "At 5 p.m." : 

" President A. Lincoln : 

" What time to-morrow, the 6th, could you see a delegation from the New 
Territory of Colorado ? Yours, 

"5th March, 1 86 1. Wm. LaRIMER, Jr." 

" At 5 P.M." 

"The Colorado delegation, eight in number, in attendance according to 
the above appointment." (In lead-pencil.) 

The description of early days on the plains, an account of 
a journey to Pike's Peak late in the fifties, is graphically told 
by my brother, William H. H. Larimer. 

After an absence of twenty-nine years, my brother visited 
Denver. In talking about his former residence there, he said, 
"I came to this place in 1858, when I was seventeen years 
old. That fall I cut logs for the first building on the site of 
Denver. They were cottonwoods, and grew about where the 
Union Station now stands. The cabin was built on the spot 
now occupied by the Sun building, at Fifteenth and Larimer 
Streets. It was a rough little affair, but it proved to be the 
advance guard of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. 
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were a part, came from Leavenworth, Kansas. It consisted 
of M. M. Jewett, R. E. Whitsett, Charles Lawrence, and 
Mr. Dorsett. There were sixty in the party originally made 
up to go to Pike's Peak, but fifty-four of them backed out 
before the start was made. We were forty-seven days on the 
road, and I walked every step of the way, driving an ox team." 
(Denver History.) 

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1851-1894 

Joseph Larimer, one of the prominent men of Evanston, 
Illinois, was born in Pittsburgh, on the sixth day of Septem- 
ber, 1851. He left Pittsburgh when a small boy, and was 
brought up in the West, in Leavenworth, Kansas. He came 
to Chicago and entered the Chicago house of the Jones & 
Laughlin Steel Company when he was sixteen years of age. 

He was much interested in the public affairs of Evanston, 
especially in its educational interests ; as a member of the 
school board he was invaluable. He was a director of the 
State Bank of Chicago, a director of the State Athenaeum, a 
member of the Union League, and also of the Builders' and 
Traders' Exchange. 

He became manager of the Chicago branch of the Jones 
& Laughlin Steel Company, and under his able administra- 
tion the business of the house steadily grew, notwithstanding 
the great development of local manufacturing establishments 
in competing lines. The Larimer school of Evanston was 
named in his honor. He married Fannie Louise Sherman, of 
Waukegan, Illinois, October fourth, 1 876. (Their three chil- 
dren are : Helen, Robert, and Joseph.) He died at the early 
age of forty-three, on the twenty-fourth day of August, 1894. 

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I was bom in Lawrenceville, Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh. 
At the time of my birth, 1847, ^^^ country was marshalHng 
its forces on the Texan frontier, preparing for war with Mex- 
ico. My brother Will remembers seeing my father weighing 
me, tied up in one of his large red silk bandanas, which seem to 
have been used in those days for all purposes, from carrying 
apples to weighing babies. 

I came into the world the one dark-haired baby of the 
family, and was considered quite a curiosity, as all the other 
babies had appeared bald-headed. 

I was a very romantic child. Lucille, daughter of our 
family physician. Dr. Marcellon Cote (who was one of the 
noted practitioners of Pittsburgh), was my childhood's friend, 
as I had no sister near my age. Lucille and I were much 
together, our friendship lasting for many years. When I 
was seven years old our family moved West and I missed 
my little friend sadly. 

The journey to the West was made by water. My father 
had gone to Nebraska in the summer to prepare a home for 
us, and in October, 1855, we started to join him. We went 
on the boat "Empire City" (commanded by Captain J. J. 
Vandergrift) down the Ohio to St. Louis. Our party was 
composed of my Aunt Martha, with her husband, the Rev. 
Watson Hughes, and their six children. They, with my dear 
mother and her nine children, made quite a family party. 
From St. Louis we went on the boat " The New Lucy" up 
the Missouri to St. Joseph, Missouri, taking a stage for St. 
Mary's, where my father met us. 

On our way to St. Mary's we passed the tribe of Pottawat- 
omie Indians, who were moving West, being crowded out by 
the progress of civilization. And as I think of it to-day 
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driving them from their old possessions. With their famihes 
and all their worldly goods, — the braves, the squaws, the 
papooses, and the ponies, — they were especially interesting to 
us children, being the first red men we had ever seen, and 
it seemed to me the caravan was miles long. 

Our new home was across the river from St. Mary's, in 
Nebraska, lying between the Papillion and Platte Rivers, 
where once more we were a happy united family. 

My ambition in girlhood was to be an artist, but lack of 
oppqrtunity at that time prevented my indulging this taste. 
From my readings of the Bible, however, I had become 
thoroughly convinced of the wisdom of God, and from the 
Book of Proverbs I had selected my life motto : " Trust in 
the Lord with all thy heart and lean not upon thine own un- 
derstanding ; in all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall 
direct thy paths ;" and so I would not allow this disappointment 
to grieve me greatly, but rather prayed that God would give 
me of His wisdom that all things might seem well, and that I 
should learn to trust Him to make all things right. 

I would impress upon my children and grandchildren that 
they should hold to their faith in God ; that losing this, they 
lose all fulfilment of His promises. Christ's teachings, too» 
are such a guide and help to our right living. Be peacefully 
inclined to others, and peace and harmony will be your por- 
tion. The peaceful nature receives many blessings. " With 
what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." 
" Judge not, that ye be not judged." 

My education was of the best that a new country could 
afford, but lacked the advantage of a thorough course, such as 
might have been obtained at my old home. 

It was my father's first intention to settle in Kansas, but on 
account of the border wars for a few years between Missouri 
and Kansas, he thought it best to take his family to Nebraska. 
In the spring of 1858 we moved from Nebraska to Leaven- 

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worth, Kansas. In June of the same year my sister Annie 
married Thomas MifBin Jones, of Pittsburgh. My first great 
grief was this separation from my only sister, who was the idol 
of the family and who had always taken a particular interest 
in me. 

My girlhood days were pleasantly passed in Leavenworth, 
broken by several visits to our old home in Pittsburgh. It was 
from Leavenworth that my father and brother Will organized 
their party for Pike's Peak, travelling with ox-teams six hun- 
dred miles, and finally camping on the site where the city of 
Denver now stands. 

I was married at high noon on Monday, June third, 1867, 
to James Ross Mellon, of Pittsburgh. Our parents had been 
lifelong friends. Judge Mellon having transacted a great deal 
of business for both my father and my grandfather, John 
McMasters. 

Of our children, William Larimer Mellon, our eldest son, 
is a well-known business man in Pittsburgh. He married 
Mary Hill Taylor, of Staten Island, New York, in 1 896, and 
has three children. Thomas is the namesake of his grand- 
father. Judge Mellon, and is a law student of promise. Our 
daughter, Sarah Lucille, was named after her Grandmother 
Mellon and my friend Lucille Cote. On the sixteenth day of 
May, 1903, at the yards of the New York Shipbuilding Com- 
pany, Camden, New Jersey, she christened the oil steamer 
" Larimer." She struck the boat such a resounding thwack 
that the dirt-begrimed workmen threw their caps in the air 
and cheered her vigorously. My brother Cassius's little daugh- 
ter, Rachel, who came to us to brighten our lives after Sadie's 
death, is now the wife of Mr. Reuben Miller, Jr., of Pitts- 
burgh. 

I am a charter member of the Twentieth Century Club of 
Pittsburgh, serving the first five years as its treasurer, and I am 
now (1903) serving my third year as Vice- President-General 

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for Pennsylvania in the National Society, Daughters of the 
American Revolution, 

Looking back over my life my earliest recollections are of 
my Penn Avenue home in the city and our country home on 
Larimer Avenue, East End. 

My father, being a public-spirited man, entertained many 
of the prominent visitors to our city, and I recall distinctly the 
visit of Horace Greeley and an amusing little incident which 
occurred during his stay with us. Mattresses for beds were 
then just coming into fashion, and my mother had her beds 
fitted with both feather-beds and mattresses. Mr. Greeley had 
a preference for the mattress. On going into his room on the 
morning after his first night with us the feather-bed was found 
on the floor ; the maid, not understanding, replaced it each day, 
only to find on the following morning that it had received 
the same treatment. 

Governor Sam Houston, of Texas, was another visitor at 
our house. He was evidently under obligations to my father, 
for I remember his presenting to my mother a beautiful bro- 
cade gown and two miniatures of himself in a gold fi-ame, one 
in uniform and the other in civilian dress. 

John B. Gough was another prominent man in whom my 
father took a great interest, and I recall the boxes in our nur- 
sery containing books of Gough 's life. 

My mother, too, was always interested in helping along 
good works, and did much in her quiet and unobtrusive way. 

Of my seven brothers I recall very pleasant memories. 
My eldest brother, John, and my brother Will attended 
Alexander Campbell's school at Bethany, Virginia. Brothers 
Ed and Tom were next older than myself, and Cassius, Joe, 
and George were younger. I remember distinctly my baby 
brother, Cassius, falling fi-om the nursery window in the second 
story to the pavement below, and his miraculous escape from 
injury. Cass, and I had climbed upon a table to close the 

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window, when he lost his balance and fell out. I was so 
frightened that I hid in a dark closet, where the family did not 
find me for some time. 

The visits to the homes of my grandparents were among 
my childhood's greatest joys. Grandmother McMasters 
always kept a bevy of grandchildren with her at her home at 
Turtle Creek. Her will, which is placed among the wills of 
my grandfathers and great-grandfathers, is proof of her love 
and interest in her progeny. She left a remembrance to each 
of her younger granddaughters and grandsons. She always 
prized our love, and it was her hope that we might not soon 
forget her after she had passed away. 

During most of these years in the Pittsburgh home my sis- 
ter was in Philadelphia at school, and I recall being awakened 
in the night by my brothers to listen to a letter from her. It 
may be hard for my grandchildren to realize that in these 
early days of my life there were no railroads in Pittsburgh ; 
telegraphs were just beginning to be used ; sewing-machines, 
telephones, electric cars and lights, and the innumerable in- 
ventions simplifying work to-day were then unheard of All 
these have come into use during my lifetime. 

Our parents taught us obedience while we were very young, 
and to me it seems there never was a more dutiful family of 
boys and girls ; we all held a feeling of reverence for both 
father and mother. 

Our dear little mother, with delicate form and sweet face, 
her wit and humor and knowledge of events, was a constant 
source of pleasure to us. She devoted every minute of her 
time and thought to the welfare of her family ; we could 
scarcely coax her to go visiting. We all, including father, 
consulted her as though she were an oracle, and she always 
gave us wise counsel. Her sight and hearing were most 
remarkable, continuing so until her death. When out in the 
country she could spy a carriage coming miles away without 

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the aid of glasses of any kind. She could catch every shade 
of accent in a word, and would astonish us with her play upon 
it. Her voice was singularly sweet and flexible, and we were 
delighted when she sang for us the quaint old Scotch and Irish 
ballads. Her quick and active mind made her an ever ready 
help in spelling and arithmetic when we were struggling with 
our lessons. She could recite the Shorter Catechism verbatim, 
and she told us that while a child she read the Bible and Mat- 
thew Henry's " Commentaries" to her father (John McMas- 
ters). My grandmother told me that Rachel (my mother) 
had the best disposition of any of her daughters. 

With my marriage I fell heir not only to a loving husband, 
but to a whole new family of relations. Father and mother 
Mellon took me to their home, and we lived there for over 
three years. Our son William was born at their homestead. 

I have been married thirty-six years. My own parents 
have passed to the life beyond, but I continue to be blessed 
with a loving husband and his loving parents. They have 
ever been kind and steadfast. Mother Mellon has been all 
that any mother could be to a daughter. 

The passing away of my beloved brother-in-law, Thomas 
Mifflin Jones, in 1889, and my only sister, Annie E. Jones, in 
1898, were partings full of grief for me. Thomas Mifflin 
Jones was a partner in the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company^ 
and a brother of B. F. Jones, the founder of the company. 
At the time of his death he was at the head of the manufac- 
turing department. 

Among the homes dear to my married life are the home- 
stead in Pittsburgh ; the winter home at Palatka, Florida, where 
this writing has been completed, and where many happy days 
were spent in readings with Mrs. Maria Dean and Mrs. Mary 
Webb, now of Boston, Massachusetts ; and the mountain home 
at Rachelwood, named in honor of my mother. My senti- 
ment for this home, built in the primitive forest, where never 

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house had stood before, is very intense ; and it is my wish 
that, whatever befalls me, this place may remain in the family 
for generations to come as a memorial to my mother. 

Rachel H. L. Mellon. 
ifirst Oeneratiou in Bmcrtca 

Children of Robert Larimer^ and Sarah , Berwick, 

York (now Adams) County (administrator's account filed in 
York County, July, 1772) : 

2. Thomas^, born about 1740; died 18 16; will made i 809, probated 

1816, at Mount Joy, Adams County ; married Catherine , 

of Berwick Township, York County. 

3. JOHN^. 

4. William-, died 1773 ; will made July 14, 1773 ; married Jean 

King, daughter of Victor King, of York County. 

5. Mary% married Andrew Mcllvaine, of York County, Pennsylvania. 

6. Margaret^, married Moses Mcllvaine, of York County, Pennsyl- 

vania. 

7. Jean% married John Larimer, of York County, Pennsylvania. 

8. Robert^ born about 1754, York County, Pennsylvania. 

Secont) Generation 

Children of [2] Thomas Larimer^ and Catherine , 

Mount Joy, Adams County, Pennsylvania : 



9. William', born 1771 ; died September 18, 1838 ; married (i), 
about 1790, Martha McNease, born 1771 ; died January 13, 
1798 ; (2) Ann Sheakley, born May 8, 1783 ; died August 
23, 1853. 

10. Thomas, JR.^ died 1831 ; will probated in York County, Penn- 

sylvania. 

1 1 . Margaret^ married James Duff. 

12. Mary', married Moses Mcllvaine. 

13. Sidney', married William Johnston. 

14. Nancy', married John Johnston. 

15. Elizabeth', married Robert Boyd. 

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Children of [4] William Larimer^, school-master, and Jean 
King, Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania : 

16. VICTOR^ Deed dated April 9, 1 796, recorded Book 2, O, page 

142 ; April 23, 1799, power of attorney to William Gilliland, 
Esq., Strabane township. 

17. Mary', no issue. 

UbirJ) Generation 

Children of [9] William Larimer' and his first wife, 
Martha McNease : 

18. Catherine*, born December 13, 1792; died ; married 

Samuel Flemming ; her only child, Elizabeth, married B. F. 
Sterrett, and went to San Francisco, California, in 1849. Sev- 
eral heirs. 

19. John*, born September 13, 1796; died December 26, 1873; 

married (i) Christiana Singer, born 1803; died May 16, 
1854 ; (2) Jane Hall ; no issue. 

Children of [9] William Larimer' and his second wife, 
Ann Sheakley, North Huntington township, Westmoreland 
County, Pennsylvania : 

20. Margaret*, born August 1 1, 1801 ; died September 26, 1822 ; 

married Isaac Taylor, born 1792; died August 21, 1875. 
Isaac married (2) Elizabeth, born 1806; died August 25, 1877. 

21. Thomas*, born January 8, 1804; died 1824, unmarried. 

22. George*, born September 4, 1806; died 1864; married Mary 

Fullerton ; no issue. 

23. William*, born October 24, 1809; died May 16, 1875; married 

Rachel McMasters, born March 17, 1817 ; died September 
16, 1879. 

24. Martha McNease*, born December 11, 181 1 ; died 1885 ; mar- 

ried (i) Humphrey Fullerton; (2) Rev. Watson Hughes, 
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. 

25. Washington*, born February 22, 1813 ; died . 

26. Hamilton*, born December 4, 1 8 16; died January 2, 1886; 

married ( i ) Lydia Flemming ; ( 2 ) Harriet Taylor, West- 
moreland County. 

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27. James Irwin*, born September 11, 1819; died June 29, 1895; 

married Nancy McMasters. 

28. Ann Jane*, born February 13, 1822 ; died 1857; married (i) 

Salmon Hart; (2) Joseph Kemp, Allegheny County, Penn- 
sylvania. 

29. Thomas*, born February 22, 1824 ; died 1842, unmarried. 

30. Mary Elizabeth*, born June 30, 1826; died 1863; married 

Andrew Louis McFarlane, Circleville, Pennsylvania. 

jfourtb (Beneratiou 

Children of [19] John Larimer* and Christiana Singer,, 
North Huntington township, Westmoreland County, Penn- 
sylvania : 

31. William". 

32. Rush', Greensburg, Pennsylvania. 

33. George^. 

34. Nancy^, married Elliott. 

35. Martha^ married Marchand. 

36. Julia'', married Pierce. 

Children of [23] William Larimer* and Rachel McMas- 
ters, Larimer Homestead, Pennsylvania, and Leavenworth, 

Kansas : 

37. John McMasters^, born February 6, 1836; died September 2, 

1881 ; married Hallie Collins, Leavenworth, Kansas. 

38. Annie Eliza^, born December 7, 1838 ; died November 7, 1898 ; 

married Thomas Mifflin Jones, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

39. William Henry Harrison', born December 9, 1840; married 

Martha Montgomery, Kansas City, Missouri. 

40. Edwin King^, born September 19, 1842 ; married Mary E, 

Dunlap, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

41. Thomas McMasters", born October 3, 1844; married Luella 

Varney, Leavenworth, Kansas. 

42. Rachel Hughey*, born January 3, 1847; married James Ross 

Mellon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

43. Cassius", born January 25, 1849; died July 22, 1884; married 

(i) Laura C. Gray ; (2) Fannie Stewart, Chicago, Illinois. 



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44. Joseph McMasters*, born September 6, 1 851 ; died August 24, 

1894 ; married Fannie Louise Sherman, Evanston, Illinois. 

45. George^, born November 9, 1854; married Margaret Flattery, 

Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

Children of [26] Hamilton Larimer* and Harriet Taylor, 
Circleville, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania : 

46. John Taylor^, married Jane Irwin, granddaughter of Margaret 

Larimer Taylor, Circleville, Pennsylvania. 

47. Charles^ unmarried, Stewartsville, Pennsylvania. 

-48. Mary Fullerton^, married Dr. R, P. McClelland, Irwin, Penn- 
sylvania. 

Children of [27] James Irwin Larimer* and Nancy 
McMasters, Leavenworth, Kansas : 

49. John\ married Mary Emma Markle, Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. 

50. Cyrus^, married Mary J. Ralston, Iowa. 

5 I . Rachel^, married William H. Dunlap, Kansas City, Missouri. 

52. George^ married Jennie M. Gray, Braddock, Pennsylvania. 

53. Frank^, married Frances Taylor, Leavenworth, Kansas. 

54. KiNG^ unmarried. Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. 

55. Nancy^ married Edward L. Hunting, Leavenworth, Kansas. 



ififtb feneration 

Children of [37] John McMasters Larimer^ and Hallie 
Collins, Leavenworth, Kansas : 

56. John McMasters^ married Bertha Eschenberg, St. Louis, Missouri. 

57. Rachel McMasters*, married Charles M. Hilliard, St. Louis, 

Missouri. 

Children of [38] Annie E. Larimer^ and Thomas Mifflin 
Jones, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : 

58. Fannie Larimer*, born April i, 1859; died October 25, 1883. 

59. Mary McMasters*, married W. Henry Raymond Hilliard, Pitts- 

burgh, Pennsylvania. 

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60. William Larimer*^, married Leila Addison Dilworth, Pittsburgh, 

Pennsylvania. 

61. Thomas Mifflin*^, born August 17, 1874; died June, 1902; 

married Mary Brown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 



Children of [39] William H. H. Larimer"^ and Martha 
Montgomery, Kansas City, Missouri : 



62. William Henry®, married Daisy Dean Colyer. 

63. Annie E.^ married George Gallagher. 



Children of [40] Edwin King Larimer" and Mary E. 
Dunlap, Cedar Rapids, Iowa : 

64. Edwin Jones'. 

65. William Dunlap'. 

66. Joseph Alexander'. 

67. Mary Dunlap', married William H. Phipps. 



Child of [41] Thomas McMasters Larimer*^ and Luella 
Varney, Leavenworth, Kansas : 

68. Genevieve', born August 14, 1890; died October 28, 1897. 



Children of [42] Rachel Hughey Larimer^ and James 
Ross Mellon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : 

69. William Larimer', born June i, 1868 ; married Mary Hill Taylor, 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

70. Sadie', born September i, 1872; died June 6, 1876, Pittsburgh, 

Pennsylvania. 

71. Rachel', born October 27, 1873 > "^i^^ February 2, 1874, Pitts- 

burgh, Pennsylvania. 

72. Thomas', born February 20, 1880, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

73. Sarah Lucille', born September 17, 1887, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- 

vania. 

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Children of [43] Cassius Larimer^ and Laura C. Gray : 

74. Rachel Hughey*,* born November 24, 1873 ; married Reuben 

Miller, Jr., June 12, 1895, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

75. William C.*, born September 15, 1876, Turtle Creek, Allegheny 

County, Pennsylvania. 

Child of [43] Cassius Larimer^ and Fannie Stewart, 
Chicago, Illinois : 

76. Cassius^, Chicago, Illinois. 

Children of [44] Joseph McMasters Larimer^ and Fannie 
Louise Sherman, Evanston, Illinois : 

77. Helen^ Evanston, Illinois. 

78. Robert'^, Evanston, Illinois. 

79. Joseph^, Evanston, Illinois. 

Child of [45] George Larimer^ and Margaret Flattery, 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa : 

80. Arthur Edwin*"', Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

Siitb Generation 

Children of [59] Mary McMasters Jones" and W. Henry 
Raymond Hilliard, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : 

81. Raymond', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

82. Mary', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

83. Thomas', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

84. Laura', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

Child of [60] William Larimer Jones^ and Leila Addison 
Dilworth : 

85. William Larimer', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 



* Rachel Hughey Larimer, No. 74, daughter of Cassius, No. 43, made 
her home with us after her parents' death. — Rachel H. L. Mellon. 

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Child of [61] Thomas Mifflin Jones'' and Mary Brown, 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : 

86. Thomas Mifflin', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

Children of [69] William Larimer Mellon^ and Mary 
Hill Taylor, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : 

87. Mathew Taylor', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

88. Rachel Larimer', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

89. Margaret Lederle', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 



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TOilltam Sbcaftlei?, Hlo* 1 

1720-1810 

rri^'f^ILLIAM SHEAKLEY^ came from the prov- 
II ML. LI ^"^^ ^^ Ulster, Ireland, about 1 740, and settled 
^r^rv in the fertile valley of the little Conawago, in 
what is now Mount Pleasant township, York (now Adams) 
County, near the settlement made by the Calverts in Mary- 
land, but became part of Pennsylvania by the running of the 
famous Mason and Dixon Line. There were five hundred 
acres of land in this tract. About 1 792 he sold this land 
and removed to Franklin township, four miles north of Get- 
tysburg, where he built the house which is still known as the 
Sheakley Homestead. 

During the first threatenings of the Revolutionary War 
William Sheakley was chosen a member of the General Com- 
mittee of York County, November third, 1775, to serve one 
year, " unless they think it expedient to dissolve themselves 
sooner." 

His two sons, John and George Sheakley, served in the 
Revolutionary War as ensigns. 

William Sheakley, my great-great-grandfather, came to 
Pennsylvania with a colony of Scotch-Irish. They chose 
the slate lands, with the pure springs and mountain air to 
which they were accustomed at home. They brought with 
them the characteristics of their race ; they were moral, in- 
dustrious, and intelligent, mostly Presbyterians or Seceders. 
They were frugal, as the Scotch always are, plain in their 

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mode of living, but cordial and hospitable. They were 
universally men of undaunted courage and patriotic feeling, 
and when the alarm of the Revolution rang through the 
land it called no truer or more willing hearts than those 
of the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. 

William Sheakley's wife, Jannet, died some years before 
his death, and the loss was greater to him on account of his 
sad affliction of failing sight, for he was totally blind fully 
two years before his death. 

It may be interesting to his descendants to know some- 
thing of the farm, the Sheakley Homestead in York County : 

The boundaries of this farm of one hundred and fifty-one 
acres, sold to William Sheakley by the Hon. John Penn, of 
Stoke Pogis, in the county of Bucks, in the kingdom of Great 
Britain, and one of the proprietors of Pennsylvania and the 
three lov/er counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex, now 
the State of Delaware, and the Hon. Richard Penn, of Queen 
Ann Street Parish, St. Mary le Bone, in the county of Mid- 
dlesex, Great Britain, aforesaid; this land was deeded before 
the formation of Lancaster, York, or Adams County. 

The tract of five hundred acres of land was owned by 
William Sheakley in 1 780, being taxed for two negroes, four 
horses, and six cattle, paying eighty pounds in Mount Pleasant 
township, York (now Adams) County. The Sheakley Home- 
stead farm was bought by the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, one of 
Pennsylvania's greatest men, for he has been called the " Father 
of the Public School System," and was a great abolitionist. 
He owned this farm for twenty-five years, when it again be- 
came the property of the Sheakley family, through a daughter 
of George Sheakley's, Mrs. Hamilton. 

During the Civil War it was upon this historic farm that 
the first blood of the battle of Gettysburg was shed, June 
thirtieth, 1863, when Rhodes's Confederate division swept 
down from Carlisle and occupied the Sheakley farm for the 

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Alter sevL-nty years tlie huusc and i: 
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night, when, on the morning of July first the Federal artillery 
near Gettysburg opened on them. A solid shot came from 
the Union cannon, killing several men and wounding many. 
The wounded were brought to the barn. A stable door was 
unhinged and nailed across a hogshead placed upon the great 
barn floor, and was used as an amputation-table. The cattle 
on the farm were guarded for the use of this improvised 
hospital, but Lee's defeat and hasty retreat saved the stock, 
while all the neighbors lost their horses, mules, and cattle, 
which had been driven towards Virginia. 

When the Hanover Railroad was built it passed through 
the old Presbyterian Cemetery in Gettysburg, and the bodies 
were removed to the new and beautiful " Evergreen Cemetery," 
on the hill. It is separated from the National Cemetery by a 
hedge, with steps connecting the two. A number of the 
Sheakley family are buried here. The grave of my great- 
grandmother, Margaret McCurdy Sheakley, the wife of 
George Sheakley, is in this cemetery. 

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1760-1812 

George Sheakley served in the Revolutionary War as 
ensign, receiving his commission when he was nineteen years 
old, June seventeenth, 1779. His will (q.v.) testifies to his 
kind heart and loving care for his wife, Margaret McCurdy, 
and daughters, Ann, Margaret, and Nancy. His daughter, Ann 
Sheakley, was married to William Larimer, Sr., and came 
with him to the old Larimer home called Mansion Farm at 
Circleville, Westmoreland County. When a little girl, their 
home being near the old York Turnpike, she saw General 
Washington in his carriage, while on her way to school, and 
later, as a young matron, she entertained many noted people 

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who journeyed through Pennsylvania. For the great highway 
to the West was across the Alleghenies, and the old State Road 
from Cumberland County, through Carlisle, to Pittsburgh 
passed south of Irwin and out of the county. Along this road 
the pioneers of the "Great Northwest Territory" came by the 
King's Highway, afterwards known as the old State Road, 
and still later divided into the various tumpikes. They 
entertained Aaron Burr, but my grandmother did not like 
him ; she said he was the first man who, in conversation, 
avoided meeting her eyes. Probably he was at this time on 
his way to Blennerhasset's, as he went down the Ohio River, 
and he was no doubt full of his ideas of the new government 
he was planning. The following will give an idea of what 
the mountain roads were at this time: The first wagoner, 
John Hayden, brought a load of two thousand pounds, with 
four horses, from Hagerstown across the mountain, for Jacob 
Beman, a merchant. It was one hundred and forty miles, 
and the teamster was nearly a month on the way ; the route 
was the Braddock Road. This was in 1 789. 

It was to such a country Ann Sheakley came as the wife 
of William Larimer. It is said that the Drumms, Markers, 
Lamars, or Larimers, had names which were as well to desig- 
nate a house as that of Welland or Leland, being, as it were, 
like Governor Panza to the Island, born to it. 

H. M. Breckenridge, in his " Recollections of the West," 
says: 

" I should be guilty of a glaring omission, even in this unshaded outline 
of by-gone days, if I were to pass in silence that portion of my townsmen 
who possessed much influence in a land of equality and freedom. I allude to 
that class who furnish us with militia colonels and generals and members of 
Congress, or who contribute most to make them, who do the honors of the 
town and keep up its reputation for hospitality. I allude to the landlords ; 
they are in reality the only lords we have in Pennsylvania ; they possess a 
degree of intelligence and respectability of character which justly gives them 
an influence, in respect to their political and military importance." 

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The border wars were by no means a thing of the past ; 
the early settlers were in continual contact with the savages. 
The " cracking of the rifles" of the pioneer was often heard ; 
it was as much of a hostile frontier as it was at any time 
during the border wars of the Revolution. The fear of having 
their children taken or tomahawked and their homes burned 
by the Indians was constantly before the early settlers of West- 
moreland. But they trusted the God of their fathers, and the 
church grew (every community had its own church), although 
their faith was much tried. 

My grandmother was a tall, fine-looking woman of a com- 
manding presence, a very devout Presbyterian. 

The name Sheakley has undergone slight changes ; in 
various deeds, wills, and and other documents, the name is 
written Shakly (before the American Revolution), Shakely, 
Shakley, Sheakly, and Sheakley. 

3ame0 Sbeaklei?, lilo. 20 

1829- 

James Sheakley was born April twenty-fourth, 1829, in 
Sheakley ville (founded by his father Moses Sheakley), Mercer 
County, Pennsylvania, where he spent his boyhood. He re- 
ceived a liberal education. In 1851 he went to California and 
remained three years in the gold-mines of that State. He 
removed to Pennsylvania during the excitement of the dis- 
covery of oil in Western Pennsylvania, and was extensively 
engaged in the production and shipping of petroleum. He 
was elected a member of the Forty-fourth Congress, in 1 874, 
as a Democrat, notwithstanding his Congressional District was 
largely Republican. 

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Being public spirited, he was always in advance of the 
times in promoting the cause of education and the good of 
the people. Thiel College, the public schools, and the City- 
Water- Works of Greenville, Pennsylvania, his adopted city, 
stand as monuments of his foresight and enterprise. In 1887 
he was appointed United States Commissioner for the District 
of Alaska, to reside at Wrangell, and was subsequently ap- 
pointed Superintendent of Schools for Southeastern Alaska. 
As he proved to be an efficient official, he was retained by 
President Harrison until 1892, when he was elected by the 
Democrats of Alaska as one of the delegates to represent them 
in the National Democratic Convention which met at Chicago, 
June twenty-first, 1892, and at this Convention he served on 
the Committees of Organization, Resolutions, and Notification. 
He resigned his position of Superintendent of Government 
Schools May twenty-first, 1892, and his resignation was re- 
ceived with regret by the Commissioner of Education at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

On the twenty-eighth of June, 1893, he was appointed 
governor of Alaska by President Cleveland, took his seat 
August twenty-eighth, 1893, and served until 1897, the full 
term. He resides in Greenville, Pennsylvania, and is one of 
the few representatives of the Sheakley name in Pennsylvania. 



jfirst feneration 

1. William Sheakley \ married Jannet Moor, widow of 
James Moor, Mount Pleasant township, York (now Adams) 
County, Pennsylvania, and had : 

2. JoHN^ born January 29, 1755 ; died September 25, 1816 ; married, 

June 22, 1779, Margaret Jenkins. He left Gettysburg in 
1804, and settled in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. 

3. George^ born 1760 ; died 1812 ; married Margaret McCurdy. 

4. Margaret% married DufF. 

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Secon& (feneration 

Children of [2] John Sheakley^ and Margaret Jenkins : 

5. Margaret^, born June 5, 1780; married James Brust, Sheakley- 

ville, Pennsylvania. 

6. Ann', born May 7, 1782 ; married Hugh Moore, French Creek, 

Pennsylvania. 

7. William', born May 7, 1784; married Esther Wallace, Cham- 

bersburg, Pennsylvania. 

8. Moses', born December 22, 1786; died 1840; married Susanna 

Linnber, October 29, 18 18. He was the founder of Sheak- 
leyville. 

9. George', born September 2, 1791 ; died 1884; married Mary 

Wallace. 

10. Alexander', born October 14, 1793 ; died 18 14, unmarried. 

11. Fanny', born July 23, 1796; married Adam Hill, Jamestown, 

Pennsylvania. 

12. John', born April 8, 1799 ; married Susanna Hayes, Hagerstown, 

Maryland. 

Children of [3] George Sheakley^ and Margaret 
McCurdy : 

13. Ann', born May 8, 1783; died August 23, 1853; married 

William Larimer. 

14. William', born 1792 ; died November 17, 1848. 

15. Robert', born May 29, 1795; died December 7, 1868. He 

was a school-master. 

16. Margaret', married John Hamilton (grandparents of Calvin and 

Joseph Hamilton), Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 

17. Nancy', married William Bailey, Larue, Marion County, Ohio. 

UbirO (Beneration 

Children of [8] Moses Sheakley^ and Susanna Linnber : 

18. Malinda*, born May 29, 1821 ; died March i, 1898; married, 

1843, Colonel A. J. Christy. 

19. Thomas George*, born January 20, 1823 ; died 1878, unmarried. 

He was Quartermaster U.S.A., in the Mexican War, 1847. 
Resided in California. 

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20. James*, born April 24, 1829; married, December 25, 1855, 

Lydia Long. 

21. William Harvey*, born November 10, 1832 ; died July 2, 1902. 

22. Mary*, born November 24, 1836 ; died April 2, 1902 ; married 

Jerome Leech. 

23. Susanna*, born May 27, 1838 ; died 1855. 

24. Moses*, born August 28, 1840. 

Children of [15] Robert Sheakley^: 

25. George*, unmarried ; served in the Civil War 1861-65. 

26. Thomas*, no issue. 

27. Eliza*, no issue. 

Ifourtb (3eneration 

Children of [20] James Sheakley* and Lydia Long: 

28. Ida Bell^ born September 25, 1856 ; died October 22, 1879. 

29. Clara Agnes^ born April 8, 1859 ; died December 8, 1 881. 

30. Frederick Edwin*, born May 5, 1861 ; unmarried. 






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BBOUT the year 1666 the five McCurdy brothers 
(Patrick, David, WiUiam, John, and Daniel) sailed 
►' from Bute, Scotland, in an open boat to the north 
of Ireland ; Patrick settled in the Cairn, Ballintoy, Antrim 
County, the others settled in Londonderry County. After the 
siege John came to America. It is surmised that "John 
Turk" * was the father of James. 

Sanies nncCiubi?, IRo, l 

1690-1771 

My great-great-great-grandfather, James McCurdy, emi- 
grated to America about the year 1720. His father, probably 
the one known as " John Turk," took part in the siege of Lon- 
donderry as the besieged, 1689. They owned a property in 
Antrim County, about two miles from the "Giants' Cause- 
way," known as Bushmills. James, after marrying a Scotch 
lass named Cooke, sailed for Pennsylvania. 

After a voyage of six months the captain found himself 
in the mouth of the James River in Virginia. The vessel was 
put about, and in due time arrived at the head-waters of the 
Elk River, in Maryland. Their first child was born in Mary- 
land about 1720. They removed to Lancaster County, Penn- 



* Called "John Turk" to distinguish him from two cousins of the same 
name. Several of these brothers eventually came to America. The Con- 
necticut McCurdys are descended from Patrick. 

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sylvania, where James McCurdy bought some hundreds of 
acres of land in Sahsbury township, near the old Pequea 
Church, where George Whitfield preached. For this land he 
obtained a general warrantee. One tract of land of which we 
have an account was of two hundred acres, date of survey 
February fourteenth, 1 738, Lancaster County. The Episcopal 
Church attempted to take this land for " glebe" purposes, and 
a suit was the result, which lasted for seven years in the courts 
then held in Philadelphia, resulting finally in establishing the 
McCurdy claim. He died in 1771, leaving four sons. 



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1736-1810 

Robert was my great-great-grandfather. He was an officer 
in the Revolutionary War. He married Ann Creighton, of 
Lancaster County, May thirty-first, 1 76 1 , and in 1781 moved 
to York (now Adams) County, where he bought a plantation^ 
paying ten thousand pounds, Pennsylvania currency, and died 
there May sixteenth, 1810. 

The manners and characteristics of the early settlers have 
been very generally inherited by their descendants, many of 
whom still cultivate the same farms, worship in the same old 
churches, and hold fast to the rigid and venerated " form of 
sound words" of the Scotch Presbyterian Church. The 
Scotch rarely leave their learning behind them. One of the 
first Latin schools established in the State was taught here 
by an old Scotchman, who continued the station for many 
years. He was succeeded by the Rev. Dr. Dobbin, as we 
infer from the following notice in an old Gettysburg paper 
of 1804: 

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" The students of Rev. A. Dobbin hereby solicit the public to favor them 
with their attendance at the court-house in Gettysburg, where they hope to 
entertain them with short discourses on interesting and amusing subjects." 

As late as 1 790 the people from the Gettysburg district had 
to go to the York post-office, a distance of twenty and thirty 
miles, for their mail. Margaret McCurdy, daughter of Robert 
McCurdy, married George Sheakley, of York (now Adams) 
County. They were my paternal great-grandparents. 



Milliam flHcCurt)^, IDo, X I 

1778-1849 

William McCurdy, son of Robert and Ann Creighton 
McCurdy, was born in York (now Adams) County in 1778. 
He was married, in 1810, to Nancy King, daughter of Victor 
King, captain in the French and Indian War, and had two 
sons, — John and Robert. He was married, in 1818, to Ann 
Crawford, of Lancaster County. She was related to Robert 
Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat, and was living when 
the battle of Gettysburg was fought. General Reynolds, who 
was one of the first to fall in the battle, was her grand-nephew. 
Upon hearing of his death, she tried to go to where he was, 
in spite of her burden of ninety years. 

William McCurdy was captain of a troop of cavalry 
militia. The services of this troop were offered in the war of 
1812, but on account of the number were not accepted. He 
was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1837, 
defeating Thaddeus Stevens. He was also an elder in the 
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IRobert flUcCurb^, IRo, 14 

1813-1884 

Robert McCurdy was born, in 1813, on the McCurdy 
farm, a beautiful tract of over three hundred acres. He was 
married in 1846 to Mary Marshall, daughter of the Hon. 
John Marshall, of Carrols tract, whom he survived seventeen 
years. 

He spent his youth on the farm, but his energy and ability 
led him to seek a more active life, and in 1856 he moved to 
Gettysburg. He was one of the earliest and most earnest 
advocates of railroads, and to his influence and personal effort 
Gettysburg owes its first railroad. On the completion of this 
line he was elected its president, and held control until the road 
was sold. As president of this railroad he was brought into 
communication with many men of national renown during 
the Civil War and during and after the battle of Gettysburg. 
His reminiscences of those stirring times were of peculiar 
interest. 

In 1869 he was elected associate judge ot Adams County, 
and held this office until 1873, when it was abolished by the 
new constitution. In 1871 Mr. McCurdy, who, like his father, 
was a captain, succeeded him in command of the cavalry 
troop. He was commissioned by Governor Geary a trustee, 
to superintend the removal of the Confederate dead from Get- 
tysburg to the South. He was an elder in the Presbyterian 
Church of Gettysburg, and a man of deep religious feeling, of 
earnest piety, upright, kind, generous, and helpful. He died in 
1884. 

jfirst Generation in Hmertca 

Children of [1] James McCurdy^ (probably son of John 
Turk McCurdy) and Cooke, Salisbury township, Lan- 
caster County : 

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2. Archibald', died 1792, in Lancaster County. 

3. James% Franklin County or Cumberland County, 

4. HuGH% Franklin County, 

5. Robert^, born in Salisbury, Lancaster County, 1736; died May 16, 

1 8 10; married, 1761, in St. James Church, Lancaster, by 
Rev. Thomas Barton, Rector, to Ann Creighton. They 
settled in Leacock township, Lancaster County, and after- 
wards, in 1779, in Adams County, Pennsylvania. 

Second Generation 

Children of [5] Robert McCurdy^ and Ann Creighton. 

6. Margaret^, born 1762 ; died May 12, 1825 ; married George 

Sheakley. 

7. Mary', married Robert Thompson, 

8. Robert% Ohio, 

9. Nancy', married Paxton, son of Robert McCurdy Paxton, 

10. Martha', married Samuel Taggart, 

11. William', born in Lancaster County, 1778; died 1849; married 

Nancy King, 

12. James', married Martha Moore ; their daughter Nancy married John 

A. Swope, ancestors of Judge Samuel McCurdy Swope, of 
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 

XTbirb Generation 

Children of [11] William McCurdy'' and Nancy King: 

13. John King*, born 181 i ; died 1873; married, 1838, Elizabeth 

McGurley, daughter of Rev. Dr. McGurley, of Franklin 
County. 

14. Robert*, born 1813 ; died 1884; married Mary Marshall. 

IFourtb Generation 

Children of [13] Dr. John King McCurdy* and Elizabeth 
McGurley, Reading, Pennsylvania : 

15. Sarah^, married Dr. A. R. Durham, Reading, Pennsylvania. 

16. Nancy King'', married Edwin F. Smith, civil engineer, Philadel- 

phia. 

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Children of [14] Robert McCurdy* and Mary Marshall : 

17. Anna CRAWFORD^ died, 1876; married, 1875, George A. Upton. 

18. Charles M.*, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. 

19. Mary McLean^ 

20. Elizabeth Marshall^, married, 1893, Dr. J. B. Scott, Gettys- 

burg. 

21. Virginia Helen^ Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 

22. Grace''. 

IHon. Samuel flncCur^1? Swopc 

1850- 

Hon. Samuel McCurdy Swope, a descendant of James 
McCurdy, No. 1 2, was elected President-Judge of the Adams- 
Fulton Judicial District in 1894. He was born in Gettys- 
burg, October fourth, 1850; graduated from Pennsylvania 
College, class of 1872; admitted to the bar in 1876. He 
married Anna Kate Bentz Stair, of York, Pennsylvania, in 
1876. 




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/^P^^HE Creightons were a numerous clan in Fermanah, 
/ 1 Ulster, Ireland ; were descendants of O'Criochan, 
^^J^ who were descended from CoUa-da-Chiroch, angli- 
cised : O'Chreian, O'Geighan, Cregan, Crean, Creighton, Cree- 
han, Grehan, and Graham. Guillaume Cretin, a poet ; James 
Crichton ; the admirable Crichton, son of Robert, Lord Ad- 
vocate of Scotland under James VI., Scotland. Sir William 
Crichton, Scotch Chancellor. 

William Creighton was one of the first elders in the Lea- 
cock Presbyterian Church. Rev. P. J. Timlow, pastor of this 
church, on Thanksgiving Day, 1 854, said : 

" Here, to-day, in this place is flowing the blood of the Puritan, the 
Scotch, the Irish, the Huguenot, the German, the Welsh. Starting, as it 
were, from different points, yet all converging to one common centre — different 
families and tribes yet of the house of Israel, with one common place of 
worship, one faith, one Lord, one baptism." 

In 1782 the trustees of the church were William Creighton, 
Colonel James Mercer, Captain George Mcllvain, Henry 
Slaymaker, and William Porter. 

William Creighton, of Leacock township, Lancaster 
County, was my great-great-great-grandfather ; he died in 
1790; will recorded November twentieth, 1790, 

ifirst feneration 

Children of [1] William Creighton^ (1710-1790) and wife 
Barbara : 

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2. Mary^, married, January 13, 1767, by Rev. Thomas Barton, to 

George Lightner, son of Nathaniel and Madeline LaRue 
Lightner, and had one son, — Isaac Lightner; married (2), 
Alexander Skiles, and had one daughter, — Mary Ann Skiles. 

3. Catherine', married John Hamilton. 

4. MARTHA^ 

5. Margaret', married Irwin, and had three children, — William, 

Samuel, and Margaret (Mrs. D.Hayes Agnew, of Philadelphia). 

6. Ann^, married, March 31, 1761, by Rev. Thomas Barton, rector 

St. James Parish, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Robert 
McCurdy. (Ann Kratton and Robert McCurdie). 



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Zbc nncflnastets jfamili2 

mcMASTERS was a Scotch name, but Charles 
Hanna, in his " Scotch-Irish," says many Gal- 
loway surnames are derived from Ireland. Most 
of the following are corruptions of older names. Among 
these names occur McWhinnie and McMasters. Mr. John 
McMasters, of Jersey City, says his ancestors came from Scot- 
land. As far as I have been able to gather data, and during 
my visit to the old McMasters home in Ulster, near the town 
of Saintfield, county Down, Ireland, I found out the follow- 
ing: 

Patrick McMasters fled from Scotland to Ireland at the 
time of the persecution in 1678. I have visited the home 
near Board Mills, county Down, Ireland, townland Drumsnod. 
He had two sons, — Patrick and John. We have no record 
of Patrick's family. John had two sons, — John and Thomas. 



3obn flDcriDaetcre, ino» 4 

1751-1805 

John came to America before the Revolutionary War, and 
served as a captain during the war. He first settled in New- 
berry township, York County, Pennsylvania, where he was 
taxed for one hundred and thirty-three acres of land in i 779. 

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He married Jean Irwin, but had no children. After the Revo- 
lutionary War he bought land in Allegheny County and settled 
near Turtle Creek. He had a great deal of real estate in 
Pittsburgh. In 1800 he sent to Ireland for his nephew, John, 
who was nineteen years old. He made him his heir, and, 
according to the terms of his will, John received all of the 
property after his aunt's second marriage. 

John McMasters was one of the prominent men in the 
early days of Pittsburgh. On the first page of the Records 
of Pittsburgh his name occurs as one of the supervisors of the 
borough of Pittsburgh, April twenty-second, 1794. 

In the list of borough officers for the years 1794-1802 
the chief burgesses were Mathew Ernest, William Gray, John 
McMasters, John Wilkins, James Brison, Ebenezer Denny, 
George Stevenson, and Isaac Craig. 

Thomas McMasters, my great-grandfather, was born in 
Breseigh, Ireland, and married Rachel McWhinney ; his son, 
John McMasters, my grandfather, married Rachel Hughey, and 
nine of eleven children grew to manhood and womanhood. 

Joseph, the second son, also came to America ; he was 
a school-master and fought in the war of 1812. 

The McMasters farm in Ireland was named Bumt Hill, 
and consisted of twenty-five English acres. There were two 
half-brothers. 

My great-grandfather, Thomas McMasters, married the 
second time, the name of his second wife being Sarah Carn 
Duff. I visited the Board Mills church-yard in Ireland in 
1885, and found the following on Thomas McMasters's 
tombstone : 

** Erected by William C. McMasters, of Belfast, to the memory of his 
father, Thomas McMasters, of Breseigh, who died Jan. 26, 1835, aged 81 
years. Also to his mother, Sarah Carn Duff McMasters, born 1762; d. 
Dec. II, 1835. Also to two daughters, Susanna and Elinor A." 

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3obn flDcnDa0tcr0, IRo, 6 

1781-1847 

John McMasters lived at the homestead at Turtle Creek, 
which was bequeathed to him by his uncle, John McMasters. 
The property was largely unimproved, but was afterwards im- 
proved through his sole effort. He built the Black Bear 
Hotel and the Diamond and Market Street properties in Pitts- 
burgh about 1822. In 1830-32 he bought the Eagle Hotel, 
on Liberty Street, and also 
the adjoining property, on 
which he erected what was 
at that time considered the 
highest row of business 
houses in Pittsburgh. 

December fourth, 1813, 
a meeting was held at his 
house tc'consider the ques- 
tion of applying to the 
Legislature to incorporate 
a company to build a turn- 
pike road from Pittsburgh 
to Greensburg. 

The farm of eight hun- 
dred acres of land at Turtle 
Creek, with its fine cultiva- 
tion, was of itself enough 
to show that he was a good farmer as well as a business man. 
He was a remarkably intelligent and deeply religious man, an 
elder in the Brush Creek Presbyterian Church, about twelve 
miles away, to which every member of the family went either 
on horseback or in the carryall on Sunday morning and prac- 
tically stayed all day. Through his efforts a branch church 

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was established at Turtle Creek which he afterwards attended 
and supported. 

The Pennsylvania Railroad had been surveyed and he 
gave the property for the station, but it was not completed 
until five years after his death. 

His daughters often mentioned a resemblance of their 
father's picture to that of Henry Clay ; he was that type of 
Scotch-Irish. The silhouette shows his Scotch physiognomy. 

Although a delicate man physically his energy was such 
that he would ride on horseback to Pittsburgh to attend to 
business and back to Turtle Creek the same day. Not many 
men of the present day would care to ride twenty-five miles a 
day to attend to their business. 

An instance of his originality was when, in making his 
will, he left less to the two daughters who married clergymen. 
When asked by his lawyer why he did so, he said : " The 
trouble with ministers is, that when they get rich they get 
bronchitis." The chair where he read his Bible and had his 
family prayers is carefully kept by his daughter, Mrs. B. F. 
Jones, of Pittsburgh, and I am glad to have an illustration of 
it. I was but three months old when my grandfather died at 
the homestead at Turtle Creek. 

Joseph McMasters married Betsy Clugson and settled near 
his brother John at Turtle Creek. He is the only person I 
can remember wearing knee-breeches and knee-buckles, and 
carrying a great silver-headed cane. I remember his coming 
to Grandmother McMasters's home in Turtle Creek. 

ITbomae flDcflnasters, IRo, 20 

1822-1872 

Thomas McMasters, born June fifteenth, 1822, son of 
John and Rachel McMasters, He inherited some city prop- 

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(Mrs. Hugh D. King) 



Ann-ik E. Larimer, No. 3^ 
(Mrs. T. M. Jones) 



Mary McM.asiers, No. 
(Mrs. B. F. Jones) 



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erty and large tracts of land at Turtle Creek, .\ liere lie was 
born and lived. He was an active worker in th'-. Republican 
party, but sought no office for himself He was a member of 
the United Presbyterian Church, and was widely known as a 
friend of the poor. He married Miirgaret Markle, November 
fifteenth, i860. Their only heir is Rachel (Mrs. Mortimer 
C. Miller, of Pittsburgh). He died from the effects of a car- 
buncle, November thirteenth, 1872. 



jfirst (Bcneratton 

Children of [1] Patrick McMasters\ who came from 
Scotland and settled at Board Mills, Lisburn, Drumsnod, 
Ireland : 

2. Patrick'. 

3. John', Drumsnod, Board Mills, Lisburn, Ireland. 



Secont) Generation 

Children of [3] John McMasters^ : 

4. John', born 1751 ; died March 4, 1805; married Jean Irwin; 

married, second, Herron ; no issue. 

5. Thomas', born 1754; '^^^'^ January 26, 1835; married (l) 

Rachel McWhinney ; (2) Sarah Carn DufF, born 1762; 
died December 11, 1835. 



Ubir^ Generation 

Children of [5] Thomas' and Rachel McWhinney : 

6. JohnS born March 19, 1781 ; died April 8, 1847; married 

Rachel Hughey, died January 2, 1865. 

7. Joseph*, died at Turtle Creek ; married Betsy Clugson. He was a 

school-master, and was in the war of 181 2. 

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Children of [5] Thomas^ and Sarah Carn DufF, of Board 
Mills, Drumsnud, Ireland : 

8. James*. 

9. William C.*, Belfast, Ireland. 

10. Jennie*. 

11. Susanna*, born October, 1837. 

12. Eleanor*, born September, 1844; died 1848. 

13. Thomas*. 

iFourtb Generation 

Children of [6] John McMasters* and Rachel Hughey 
(first generation of McMasters in America) : 

14. JoHN^, born April 15, 181 l ; died August 14, 1858; married 

Leonora Markle, Braddock, Pennsylvania. 

15. Thomas^, born December 2, 1813 ; died March 24, 1814. 

16. Eliza Ann^, born February 10, 1815; married Hugh Davidson 

King, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

17. Rachel^, born March 17, 1817 ; died September 16, 1879 '> ^^^~ 

ried William Larimer, Jr. 

18. Jane^, born November i, 1818; died July 25, 1849; married 

Rev, Joseph Osborn. 

19. Nancy^, born October 12, 1820 ; died August 10, 1883 ; married 

James Irwin Larimer. 

20. Thomas^, born June 15, 1822 ; died November 13, 1872 ; mar- 

ried, i860, Margaret Ann Markle. 

21. Rebecca*, born February 20, 1825 ; died May 22, 1903 ; mar- 

ried (i) Rev, John W.Duff; (2) James Carlisle, 

22. Joseph^ born July 3, 1827 ; died October 4, 1850, unmarried, 

23. Mary^ born March 13, 1829; married Benjamin Franklin Jones,* 

of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 



* It perhaps will not be out of place to speak here of the above-mentioned 
Benjamin Franklin Jones, husband of Mary MacMasters, No 23. 

While this genealogy was being prepared for the press he passed away. 
May nineteenth, 1903, aged seventy-nine years. 

His sterling business qualifications have been a recognized factor in the great 
iron and steel industry of Pittsburgh for many years. He has been spoken of 
as one of the prominent business men of the age. Mr. Jones was the founder 
of the American Iron- Works, now Jones & Laughlin's Steel Company. 

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Rachel Hughey, No. i : 
(Mrs. John McMasters) 



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3o0epb MuQbei^ 

1707(9)-! 773 

30SEPH HUGHEY settled in Lancaster County 
.- about 1730, and belonged to the Ulster settlement 
of Scotch-Irish. The earliest record in Pennsylvania 
is the Hughey Bible record, beginning with the 
marriage of Joseph Hughey and Jean Irwin (Erwin), March 
thirteenth, 1737. 

In 1759 Joseph Hughey had two hundred acres of land 
in Drumore township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He 
received his first land warrant in 1751. 

Of the record of the Hughey family of Ulster, Ireland 
O'Hart says : " O'Haodha, O'Hugh, or Hughes, chief of the 
Fearnmhoighe, or Fernmoy, a district in the county Down, 
on the borders of Antrim, in the barony of Lower Iveaghs. 
The dominant family in Ulidia, when in a.d. 1177 it was 
invaded by John de Courcy was that of Cu-Uladh, Mac- 
Duinsleibhe, O'Heochadha, and who was nephew of Rory, the 
fifty-fourth and last king of Ulidia. The " Cu-Uladh," por- 
tion of this name has been latinized Canis Ultoniae ; meaning 
that this chief of Ulidia (which in the twelfth century consti- 
tuted the " Kingdom of Ulster") was swift-footed as a 
hound. 

This, I think, shows that the Hugheys, or O'Heogheys, 
were of Irish origin, and if any of the family went to France 
with the Huguenots they were, no doubt, of the Irish family, 

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which is probably the reason of the various spelling of the 
Hughey name * 

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3obn IKuobe^, Hlo. 7 

1752-1837 

The Hugheys were Presbyterians. Elizabeth King, the 
wife of John Hughey, was a sister of the prominent and 
patriotic clergyman, John King, of the Revolution. John 
Hughey and his brother Ephraim served in the Revolutionary- 
War. John was one of the rangers of the frontier, which life 
no doubt caused him to choose the wilds of what is now 
Allegheny County as his home, for when he and Elizabeth 
King settled in Plum township the Indians were in that region. 
He was a God-fearing man, and when the family of one of his 
neighbors was murdered by the Indians, and their home burned, 
he felt that Providence favored him, because his home and 
family were not molested. My grandmother remembered 
being carried to Fort Pitt for safety on two occasions. It was 
a wild country to which they came to make their future home, 
and the desire for companionship was strong. He sent for his 
cousin. Colonel Robert Cunningham, of Lancaster County, 
with whom he served in the Revolutionary War, and offered 
him half of his farm as an inducement to settle near him. 

Robert Cunningham was then a bachelor. After years of 
comradeship he married and raised a large family, and the 
farm was divided between the Cunninghams and Hugheys. 

* It is interesting to recall the fact that the Protestants who took refuge in 
the north of Ireland in the past years were not from Scotland alone ; there were 
French Huguenots, Hollanders, and English. We must bear in mind that 
tbere was a nucleus of the native Irish, who themselves became reformed. 
The Hugheys evidently belonged to a clan of reformed Irish, because they 
became Presbyterians. Some of the Hugheys of Pennsylvania claim to be of 
French Huguenot descent. (See Addenda.) 

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The families of two of John Hughey's brothers went South 
and settled in North or South Carolina. Ephraim settled south 
of the Monongahela River, four miles from Pittsburgh. These 
two families of Hugheys have many descendants in the western 
part of Pennsylvania. 

My great-grandmother, Elizabeth King Hughey, was a 
very handsome, dignified woman, and to her children and 
grandchildren was the personification of what a lady should 
be ; and even in the wilderness she had the reputation of 
elegance and a presence inspiring to the younger generation. 
She was a faithful mother, and as a matron of the Revo- 
lution suffered and " bore the burden and heat of the day," 
while her husband, John Hughey, fought for his country. 

Robert Hughey, from Ireland, was licensed to preach in 
the Presbytery of Donegal, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 
receiving his license from Ireland in 1773. Whether he was 
a brother of Joseph Hughey I have no record. 

ifirst Generation in Hmerica 

Children of [1] Joseph Hughey^ and Jean Irwin (or 
Erwin), of Drumore township, Lancaster County, Pennsyl- 
vania, married March thirteenth, 1 737 : 

2. Patrick^ of North or South Carolina. 

3. Samuel^, of North or South Carolina. 

4. A DAUGHTER'', married William Irwin. 

5. Jean'', unmarried. 

6. Ephraim^, married Dorcas Nieled. 

7. JoHN% born January 31, 1752; died May 2, 1837; married 

Elizabeth King. 

Secon& Generation 

Children of [6] Ephraim Hughey'^ and Dorcas Nieled, 
who came from Lancaster County and settled, first, in AUe- 

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gheny County, and then in Washington County, 1785, on 
a tract of seven hundred acres of land four miles south from 
Pittsburgh : 

8. Joseph', born 1780; died 1856; married Jane Kennedy, born 

1793; died 1842; daughter of William and Ann (Strow- 
bridge) Kennedy. 

9. Jane', married Hayes. 

10. John', of Mercer County. 

1 1 . Willison', a surgeon in the United States army ; killed by explosion 

on steamboat. 

12. Rachel', drowned in Gulf of Mexico ; married Shaw. 

Children of [7] John Hughey'* and Elizabeth King, 
of Plum township, Allegheny County : 

13. Robert', born February 12, 1780. 

14. Joseph', born March 24, 1782 ; married Peggy Cavet. 

15. Rachel', born September 27, 1784; married John McMasters. 

16. John', born February 26, 1787. 

17. Jean', born November il, 1789 ; married Thomas Chalfant. 

18. William', born February I, 1792 ; married Earle. 

19. Elizabeth King', born September 6, 1794; married Solomon 

Lightcap. 

20. Ann', born November 29, 1796 ; married Ananias Chalfant. 



Note. — ^Joseph Hughey, No. i, died in 1773. A copy of his Land 
Warrant, Will, and Inventory and Appraisement of his Estate are inserted 
with other documents in this book. The will of his wife, Jean Irwin Hughey, 
was found recently among the earliest records of Washington County, Pennsyl- 
vania (Will Book No. I, page 41), dated April twelfth, 1784. She made 
her son John Hughey, No. 7, her sole executor. Robert Cunningham and 
Joseph McDermut were witnesses. This proves that the writer's great-great- 
grandmother, Jean Irwin Hughey, came with her sons and their families West 
to what is now Allegheny County about 1780. 

The aforesaid part of Allegheny County at an early date belonged to Wash- 
ington County. The above will was recorded in Washington County, thus 
causing a confusion in the author's records. 




Rachel Hughev 

(Mrs. J<>hn McMasters) 

Of Turtle Creek 



Silhouette taken about the 
time of her marriage, 1810 



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IRobert MwQ 

1705-1763 

^J^i^OBERT KING, one of the early settlers of Little 
IL^ Britain township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 
■ 1% came from Ulster, Ireland, about 1717. He 
married Ann McLaughlin, of Peach Bottom, Lancaster 
County, in 1736. At the time of his death, 1763, he was 
one of the elders in the Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church. 

One of the tracts of land, of which I have a record, was 
bought December first, 1750, from the proprietaries of Penn- 
sylvania (one hundred and thirty acres), Surveyor-General 
Nicholas Scull and James Hamilton signing the deed or 
warrant. 

According to the manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin, 
Ireland, the families mentioned in Ulster were among the 
principal families in Ireland at the close of the seventeenth 
century. Among the Anglo-Irish families who settled in Ireland 
since the invasion the King family was prominent. Sir Robert 
King was one of a committee of Parliament sent over as com- 
missioners to Ulster to rule the affairs of the country, October, 
1645. 

jflrst aeneration in Hmerlca 

Children of [i] Robert King^ and Ann McLaughlin 
(married 1 736) : 

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2. William^, born October 4, 1738 ; married Isabella Campbell. 

3. Susannah'^, killed by the Indians near McDowell's Fort, 1763 ; mar- 

ried John Cunningham. Their children were Colonel Robert 
Cunningham, of the Revolution, and Elizabeth. 

4. JoHN% born December 5, 1740; died July 15, 1813; married, 

April 2, 1 77 1, Elizabeth McDowell, daughter of John Mc- 
Dowell, of West Conococheague ; no issue. 

5. Mary', born September 27, 1742; married James McLaughlin. 

Children : John, James, George, Ann, and Mary. 

6. Robert^, born September 24, 1746; died August 14, 1827; 

married, April 29, 1773, Janet Smith, born 1775, '^^^'^ J^'X 
22, 1825, daughter of Rev. Sampson Smith. 

7. Ann", born January 22, 1750; married Dr. Jeremiah Nelson, of 

North Carolina. 

8. James", born September 5, 1751 ; died unmarried. 

9. Elizabeth^ born March 10, 1753 5 died July 29, 1829, married 

John Hughey, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. 

10. Rachel''^, born September 7, 1754; married Alexander Snodgrass, 

and had sons and daughters ; lived near Pittsburgh, Pennsjl- 
vania. 

11. George^, born May 5, 1758; married, June 6, 1786, Margaret 

McDowell, daughter of John McDowell. 



Seconb Generation 

Children of [2] William King and Isabella Campbell 

12. Robert^. 

13. JoHN^. 

14. Hugh'. 

15. Thomas'. 

16. Margaret'. 

17. Rachel'. 

18. Ann.' 

Children of [6] Robert King^ and Janet Smith : 

19. Sampson', born April 15, 1774; died August 10, 1777. 

20. Elizabeth', born January 22, 1776. 

21. Sampson S.', born January 14, 1779. 




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(Mrs. J.-hn Hughey) 
Of Turtle Creek 



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22. John*, born 1787. 

23. Robert^, born 1789 ; died about 1844, in Marietta County, Penn- 

sylvania. 

Children of [11] George King^ and Margaret McDowell, 
West Conococheague, Pennsylvania : 

Nancy^, born December 10, 1788; married Thomas Carson. 
Children : Eliza Jane, William, Washington, Thomas, Eme- 
line, David, and Rose. Eliza Jane married Richard Bard. 

John', born April 8, 1790 ; died November 23, 1823. He was 
a physician, and practised medicine in Mercersburg, Pennsyl- 
vania. He settled in Murfreesborough, Tennessee, where he 
died. 

Robert^ born March 18, 1793 ; married Jane Skyles. 

James^ born October 3, 1798 ; married Jane Morrison. 

George^, born January 21, 1800; physician; died at Licking 
Creek, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, 1833, unmarried. 



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3obn Iking, IRo. 4 

1740-1813 

Bxtracts from tbe XKHritinos an& Sermons ot IRev* 
5obn IRino ^urtno tbe IRevolutionar^ Mar 

Rev. John King was pastor of the Presbyterian Church of 
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, during the Revolutionary War, 
I have quoted freely from Rev. Dr. King's sermons in Rev. 
Dr. Alfred Nevin's " Churches of the Valley," published in 1852, 
for the purpose of showing that the spirit of the people before 
the " troublous times of the Revolution" was law abiding, and 
the church and state desired to avert the coming evil, but their 
constitutional rights were attacked, which caused loyal royalists 
to see the necessity of asserting themselves ; also that the 
Revolution was fought by the colonists who were of the 
people and a people already free, — the English, Scotch, Irish, 
Welsh, Huguenots, German, not forgetting to mention the 
small body of fighting Quakers and the non-fighting Moravians, 
who took the " test oath" and opened their homes and took 
care of the wounded and fever-stricken who were sent them. 
Fifteen hundred Hessian soldiers found their last resting-place 
on the banks of the Monocacy at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 

Dr. King says : 

" My father, Robert King, whom I believe to have been a pious man, 
was careful to educate me in the principles of the religion of Christ. When 
I was thirteen years old I was put to the grammar school, at which I con- 
tinued until I had read Greek and Latin classics. Logic and Metaphysics, and 
Moral Philosophy. After this I spent three years in teaching school. I 
entered college May 6, 1765, commenced A.B. May 20, 1766, and was 
licensed to preach on the 13th of August, 1767, by the Second Philadelphia 
Presbytery. August 30, 1769, I was ordained and installed as "pastor of 
the church ot upper West Conococheague. " 

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He was one of the trustees of Dickinson College in 1792, 
when the degree of D.D. was conferred upon him. He was 
elected Moderator of the Fourth General Assembly in 1792. 

It was due to Rev. Dr. John King's interest in James 
Buchanan, afterwards President of the United States, that he 
received his collegiate education. 

From his church in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, were given 
some of the most patriotic sermons of that time. During the 
darkest days of the Revolution, when our army was suffering 
at Valley Forge, he prophesied our greatness as a nation. In 
an address on the death of General Montgomery, January, 
1 777, he said : 

" Many things, indeed, seem to be against us, — a very great and powerful 
enemy, who has been long trained to victory ; their numerous and savage 
allies, who, having lost their liberty, would have others in the same condition ; 
our weakness and inexperience in war ; internal enemies, which we cannot 
very well root out ; the loss of many of our friends and a beloved and able 
general ; but let not these destroy our hopes or damp our spirits. This may 
perhaps be that darkness which precedes the glorious day. Nor let us 
judge that the cause is lost, even though we should be brought lower still. 
God nitiy have great things to do with this people. This land was 
made use of as a refuge for His oppressed people ; His hand has brought 
them to maturity in it ; and He may now be about to make them eminent 
in the world and give them a name among the nations of the earth. 
Should this be the case, let us not wonder that we showed travail in birth ; 
that so great a nation should be born in political life and independence with sore 
pangs and blood. It is agreeable to God's method to bring low before He ex- 
alteth ; to humble before He raises up. Let us trust in Him, and do our duty, 
commit the event to His determination, who can make these things to be for 
us, which by a judgment of sense we are ready to say are against us." 

Dr. King commenced his ministry in exciting times. It 
was not long after he had entered upon the pastorate of this 
church until the whole community was thrown into a ferment 
by the following occurrence, which seriously threatened the 
best interests of the church. But he was the man to meet the 

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emergency, and he did meet it manfully and fearlessly, and the 
storm expended itself without any serious results. 

In the year 1770 Colonel James Smith had been lodged 
in prison in Bedford County on the charge of murder, which 
had occurred in an affray that had taken place in that county. 
For more safe keeping he had been removed to prison at Car- 
lisle. His friends, becoming exasperated at such treatment, and 
calling themselves " Black Boys," determined to go to Carlisle 
and attempt his rescue, but through the persuasions of the 
colonel they desisted. 

On their return to Conococheague they met three hundred 
persons who had set out on the same errand, so great, so intense, 
and so general was the excitement throughout the whole settle- 
ment. It was on this occasion that Dr. King delivered the 
following address to his congregation. And it teaches two 
things, — first, that he was a man of great moral courage, to 
stand up and deliver such an address, under such circumstances, 
in the very place where the excitement was so intense, and 
when so many of his own congregation sympathized so deeply 
in the movement ; and second, that Presbyterian ministers were 
then, as they are now, law-abiding men. The address embodies 
principles in regard to subjection to the civil magistrate which 
are as important now as they were when delivered on the occa- 
sion referred to. It may be added that Colonel Smith was 
honorably and justly acquitted of the charge preferred against 
him. Dr. King said : 

" The distractions which have lately agitated this part of the country, 
and, I am sorry to say, have too much prevailed in this particular settlement, 
are, indeed, a matter of no small uneasiness to me, and certainly it must 
appear a distressing consideration to every one that has any regard to the 
peace and good order of society, either civil or religious. 

♦*We see, then, that this subjection is a necessary and commanded duty 
incumbent upon all, and certainly Christians are to consider themselves under 
the strongest obligations ; yea, it is so connected with religion that I can 
scarcely think a person a good Christian who is not a good civilian. A dis- 

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position to oppose or to abet or encourage the actual opposition to civil govern- 
ment is a temper of mind contrary to the spirit of Christ and unbecoming the 
Christian character. 

" The law of God is the first and highest rule, and binds all, both kings 
and subjects, high and low, under the inviolable and perpetual engagements. 
They are accountable to God, and also to the laws of the land, if they go 
beyond their trust. 

•• But suppose they leave their station, it affords no argument for us to 
leave ours. Nay, if opposition should arise to such a height as to require 
opposition, which may sometimes happen in any government, such objection 
ought to be made in a quiet, peaceable, and lawful manner, and not by force 
of arms, tumults and riots, and the like. This is choosing the worst way, for 
no other reason than because it is the worst ; for oppression itself will not 
justify opposition by force, until all milder measures have failed. And there- 
fore I take this occasion publicly to declare my abhorrence and detestation of 
such riotous conduct, and most earnestly exhort and warn all those that hear 
me to abstain from it, and to avoid all those who do by any means encourage 
practices so destructive of the peace and good order of society, nay, so 
reproachful to human nature." 

Rev. Mr. Nevin says : 

'♦ It was but a few years after the occurrence of the event just mentioned 
until the Colonies began to be agitated, from one extreme to the other, on the 
subject of this connection with Great Britain. The fires that had long been 
concealed were now beginning to give evidence of their existence. Great 
Britain had become more and more unyielding in her claims, unrelenting, and 
the American Colonies had become more determined than ever to maintain 
their rights and defend them at all hazards. From these positions neither party 
would recede. The breach had become too wide to be healed. The crisis 
had been reached, and the country was in arms. The same spirit which had 
pervaded the Colonies at large pervaded also the minds of the people here. 
The feeling of patriotism had been enkindled in their bosoms, and were to 
know no abatement in their ardor until they had achieved their country's inde- 
pendence. In producing this spirit and in fostering it Dr. King was second to 
none of the Presbyterian clergymen of his day. He not only volunteered his 
services and went as chaplain to the battalion that marched out from this part 
of the country, but many were the addresses he delivered in behalf of the 
liberties of his country." 

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At a meeting of the citizens of the neighborhood, called 
to deliberate on the state of affairs, in 1775, Dr. King thus 
spoke : 

'* Gentlemen, the occasion of your meeting here this day is of a serious 
and alarming nature. Driven by the cruel hand of violence, you are now 
brought to the sad alternative, either of submitting to the iron rod of oppression 
and slavery, or appearing under arms in the defence of your natural and sacred 
rights; and your sentiments required. Which of these will you choose and 
resolutely adhere to ? Let us consider a little of the occasion of these move- 
ments. Whatever secret schemes may be at the bottom, we know that actions 
speak loud, and from these we may judge that the heaviest chains are being 
prepared for us, that a plan of the most perfect slavery and oppression is laid, 
and is now in actual and violent execution. Say which of your most sacred 
rights and invaluable franchises are not in danger by this plan. You think you 
have a natural right to use your own property. No, says Parliament ; we have 
a right to tax you as we please, without your concurrence. You think you 
have the right to be governed by your own laws. No, says the Parliament ; 
we have, and of a right ought to have, full power to make laws and statutes 
sufficient to bind the Colonies and people of America in all cases whatsoever. 

"This breaks down all your boasts of liberty at once, destroys your 
assemblies, and makes you absolutely subject to whatever burdens a corrupt 
ministry or a venal Parliament may please to lay upon you. You think you 
have a constitutional right to be tried, in case of life, liberty, or property, by 
a jury of your vicinage. No. You think that murderers should not escape. 
Yes, says Parliament, if they are engaged in our cause. Do you think your 
religion is safe ? Not very secure, indeed, when the Popish religion is estab- 
lished, and the French laws are set up in our neighborhood. 

'< We hold our charters, and consequently our titles to our possessions, by 
the plighted faith of the Crown. Yet what regard is paid to this ? These 
charters are violated at the pleasure of Parliament, and so they may go on to 
divest us of everything we call our own. And what has the present Parlia- 
ment done ? Instead of relieving, they have increased our burdens. We 
waited and hoped for assistance from friends in England ; but neither they nor 
we could be heard. One would say, we must confine our trade solely to 
Britain and the West Indies ; another, that the people of New England must 
not fish on the banks of Newfoundland (that may be reserved for their peace- 
able neighbors, the French) ; and a third, to enable the king to declare us 
active rebels, and treat us accordingly, thousands of men are sent over to execute 
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already burst, and violence is begun. We hear pretty authentic accounts of 
an actual engagement. 

** Now, this is our lamentable situation ; and what will we do ? I am 
ready to anticipate your answer, and say that you will firmly stand for your 
liberties, and with all your force oppose these unconstitutional exertions of 
power. We have been opposing them in a peaceable way, but now we are 
driven to the worst, and must either submit or appeal to arms, that ' ultimo 
ratio regum,' the last argument of kings. 

** But some will perhaps say it is taking up arms against the king, — a 
grievous crime, according to the English Constitution, and contrary to the 
commands of the apostle, who teaches that every soul be subject to the higher 
powers. My sentiments of this matter are these : I acknowledge King George 
as my rightful sovereign, I declare myself his subject, and am willing to swear 
allegiance to him, and I do not doubt but every one of you would declare the 
same ; but still I do firmly believe that all allegiance is bounded by the consti- 
tution of our government, and all obedience is limited by the laws of God. It 
is, therefore, constitutional allegiance that we would declare. It is this that we 
plead for. It is obedience in things lawful that we are to pay, and this the 
apostle surely would never inculcate subjection to earthly powers. . . . 
But this is the case with us. We have no other refuge from slavery but those 
powers which God has given us and allowed us to use in defence of our dearest 
rights ; and I hope He will bless our endeavors and give success to this 
oppressed people ; and that the wicked instruments of all these distractions 
shall meet their due reward. I earnestly wish that in such troublous times, 
while we plead for liberty, a proper guard may be kept against any turbulent 
or mobbish outbreak, that unanimity may be universal both in counsel and 
action, and that we may still have an eye to the great God, who has some 
important reasons for such severe corrections." 

In an address to Captain Huston's company, in 1776, be- 
fore leaving for the battle-field, Rev. Dr. King said : 

" I hope you will remember the designs and resolutions with which you first 
consented to, and joined in, the public opposition to the tyranny of Great 
Britain. I hope that at this time of great necessity you will not suffer the fire 
and warlike spirit to faint, and so manifest all that you have hitherto done and 
said to signify nothing. It appears that even now is the critical and trying time ; 
our enemy making their main push and at the same time coming into such cir- 
cumstances as they will be most in our power ; while they continued under the 
cover and convoy of their ships and were out of our reach, now, it seems, 

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they have taken the land and come into such circumstance as we desired. But 
our divided army cannot operate against their numbers w^ithout an addition. 
You are loudly called upon to go to its assistance. Indeed, the case speaks for 
itself so loudly as is sufficient to rouse every spark of martial fire that may be 
in you. 

"There is, one would think, no need of words. Your country, lives, 
liberties, and estates in danger, all cry most bitterly for help ! And why should 
there be the least appearance of backwardness among you ? I am so glad to 
hear that some among you are so hearty in the cause as by their readiness to the 
service to show that they still desire to be free, and were in earnest when they 
said they would defend their liberties with their lives. 

"The king of Great Britain has declared us rebels. A capital crime. 
Submission therefore consents to the rope or the axe. Liberty is doubtless 
gone. None could imagine a tyrant king should be more favorable to conquered 
rebels than he was to loyal, humble, petitioning subjects. No; if ever a people 
lay in chains, we must ; if our enemies carry their point against us and oblige 
us to unconditional submission, this is not all. Our Tory neighbors will be 
our proud and tormenting enemies. . . . The cause of American Indepen- 
dence and liberty, which has now called you to go forth to the scene of action, 
is indeed a cause in which it will be glorious to conquer and honorable to die. 
The victory, however dearly bought, will be but a cheap purchase." 

Rev. Mr. Nevin concludes by saying : 

"Such was the spirit of Dr. King in those perilous times of our country's 
history, and such was the spirit of patriotism in this congregation that it con- 
tributed its full proportion of men and officers to advocate our cause and to 
defend American Independence." 




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HERE is a great deal of history concerning the Mc- 
Laughlin clan or family. O'Hart, in his Irish Pedi- 
grees, says : 



"The name of McLaughlin, from Lochlan, one of the kings of Airleach ; 
some of the McLaughlins during the eleventh and twelfth centuries were 
princes of Ironeen and some of them were monarchs of Ireland." 

The McLaughlins, from Ulster, Ireland, who settled in 
Peach Bottom township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 
were among the earliest of the Scotch-Irish in that section. 

Ann McLaughlin '^ married Robert King, 1736. 



* I have been unable to determine to which lamily of McLaughlins the 
great-great-grandmother (Ann McLaughlin) belonged. 







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RS. BOYD says, in her " Irwins and their Kin :' 



" It is a noble line from pure Scotch-Irish, — the blood that 
has done more than any other to turn the wilderness into the 
strongest and most enlightened nation the world has yet known. We shall 
search history in vain for a family that contains in a higher degree love of God, 
kindred and country, wifh the highest personal integrity, dauntless will, energy 
oi' purpose, and a burning devotion to liberty in all its forms, that could have 
been nourished nowhere else than among the intrepid clans that followed Wil- 
iam and Bruce to battle." 

The American Irwins are of Scotch descent, being de- 
scended in a direct and unbroken Hne from the ancient house 
of Bonshaw, Scotland. Robert Irwin fled from Scotland to 
Gleno, Ireland, in 1 584. Above the door of the Castle Bally- 
nally, on the shores of Larn, 1625, is the legend. ''God's 
Providence is Mine Inheritance." The Irwins of Lancaster 
County settled there before 1737. 

Jean Irwin married Joseph Hughey, March thirteenth. 
1737, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She was, I think, a 
sister of Captain Moses Irwin, who was born in 1722 and 
died in 1819. He was captain of a provincial company of 
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Hmerican IRevolutton 

^V HAVE found mention of the family names of my 
H Colonial and Revolutionary ancestors in the Colonial 
■I records and Pennsylvania Archives. Several of them 
belonged to the Pennsylvania organization known as " Asso- 
ciators." The following excerpt from a letter to me by the 
late Dr. William H. Egle, State Librarian, under date of 
January twelfth, 1893, will serve to explain the term: 

** At the outset of the Revolution the volunteers associated themselves for 
defence under resolutions of associations. In 1777-78, owing to the fact 
that many of the prominent officers and men had gone into the Continental 
service (the Pennsylvania Line), a new militia law was enacted, dividing all 
persons (males) between sixteen and fifty-three years into eight classes, with 
officers, etc. 

<'When the militia were ordered out, they were called by classes, and 
served what was termed a 'Tour of Duty.' The associators and militia 
were called out only in cases of emergency. The Associators of Pennsylvania 
were the same as the Minute Men of New England. Hence, if a company 
had been called out in December, 1776, to assist the Continental Army, it was 
released from duty after the emergency was over. 

*' In the account of the battles of Trenton and Princeton, the term associa- 
tors and militia are used indiscriminately. 

"As to the 'Flying Camp,' this was composed wholly (that is the four 
thousand five hundred from Pennsylvania) of associators who volunteered for 
that purpose. This was the body of men so badly cut up at the battle ot 
Long Island, in August, 1776. The Brigadier-Generals in command of the 
Pennsylvania Associators and militia were Roberdeau, Ewing, Potter, Arm- 
strong, Irvine (James), Tracy, and one or two others. 

*' As to the ' Crossing of the Delaware,' some of the Pennsylvania Asso- 
ciators crossed, but most of them were employed on guard duty, while the 

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line, the regular troops, did the military execution of course ; vftry frequently the 
former got into the midst of battle before they were aware of the fact." 

The resolutions offered by the committees of the different 
counties in Pennsylvania in June, 1 774, are of historic value, 
and as the Lebanon resolves seem to be shorter and cover 
the ground of those of Lancaster and other counties, I think 
it would be interesting to know of the sympathy felt by 
Pennsylvania for her sister colony. 

"June 25, 1774, a meeting was held at Captain Greenwalt's, in Lebanon, 
Major John Philip De Hass, Chairman. 

" It was unanimously declared and resolved : 

"I. That the act of the British Parliament, by which the port of Boston is 
shut up, is an act of oppression to the people of that city, and subversive of 
the rights of the inhabitants of America. 

"2. That while we profess to be loyal subjects of Great Britain, we shall 
not submit to unjust and iniquitous laws, as we are not slaves, but freemen. 

"3. That we are in favor of a Congress of Deputies who will act in 
behalf of the people for obtaining a redress of grievances. 

"4. That we will unite with the inhabitants of other portions of our 
country in such measures as will preserve to us our rights and our liberties. 

"5. That our countrymen of the city of Boston have our sincerest 
sympathy ; that their cause is the common cause of America. 

"6. That a committee [men named] be appointed to collect contributions 
for our suffering brethren. 

"J. P. DeHAss, 

" Chairman." 

New England was no doubt thankful for the help Penn- 
sylvania sent them at this time, for from every committee of 
county or township we find reference made to sending pro- 
visions and money to Boston. 

General Anthony Wayne wrote to Governor Thomas 
Wharton under date of April, 1778, the following: 

** A woman who has been in Philadelphia for three or four days, and at 
this moment returned, says that the general report is that in the course of two 
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principal officers they have frequently been heard talking in a desponding style, 
and that they can't move until they receive reinforcements, with severe sarcasm 
against their generals, who they wish to be recalled, and who I hope will not, 
until we have an opportunity to Burgoyne him ; but this will depend on the 
exertions of the States ; at present he outnumbers us, and by last accounts New 
England is so absorbed in accumulating wealth that they have been totally in- 
sensible to our sufferings and danger, and sunk into a torpid supineness, from 
which it is difficult to arouse them." 

General Wayne begs for help. He says : 

'• We shall certainly want, in the whole, nine thousand shirts and nine thou- 
sand pairs of overalls ; the sick have been laid up for want of clothing, except 
in a few instances ; there is scarcely one of them that has a shirt. ' ' * 

The Articles of Association passed by the Committee of 
Safety, August nineteenth, 1775, and the Address of the Com- 
mittee of Conference to the Associators of Pennsylvania, June 
twenty-fifth, 1 776, as given in Vol. XIII. of the Pennsylvania 
Archives, second series, gave me the history of the times as 
much as anything else. In trying to organize the Flying Camp 
(of four thousand five hundred of the militia) for the immedi- 
ate protection is shown the spirit of the times. 

" We need not remind you that you are now furnished with new motives 
to animate and support your courage. You are not about to contend against 
the power of Great Britain in order to displace one set of villains to make room 
for another. Your arms will not be enervated in the day of battle with the 
reflection that you are to risk your lives or shed your blood for a British 
tyrant, or that your posterity will have your work to do over again. You are 
about to contend for permanent freedom, to be supported by a government 
which will be derived from yourselves. 

«« We call upon you, therefore, by the respect and obedience which are 
due to the authority of the United Colonies, to concur in this important 
measure. The present campaign will probably decide the fate of America. It 



* At this time (winter of 1777-78) the British army had possession of 
the city of Philadelphia, while the American army, under General Washington, 
General Wayne, and others, were suffering for proper food, clothing, and shelter 
at Valley Forge, not far distant. 

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is now in your power to immortalize your names by mingling your achieve- 
ments with the events of the year I//6, a year which zve hope will be famed 
in the annals of history to the end of time for establishing upon a lasting founda- 
tion the liberties of one quarter of the globe. Remember the honor of your 
colony is at stake. Should you desert the common cause at the present juncture, 
the glory you have acquired by your former exertions of strength and virtue will 
be tarnished, and our friends and brethren who are now acquiring laurels in the 
most remote parts of America will reproach us, and blush to own themselves 
natives or inhabitants of Pennsylvania. But there are other motives before you. 
Your houses, your fields, the legacies of your ancestors, or the dear-bought 
fruits of your own industry, and your liberty, now urge you to the field. 
These cannot plead with you in vain, or we might point out to you further, 
your wives, your children, your aged fathers and mothers, who now look up to 
you for aid, and hope for salvation in this day of calamity only from the 
instrumentality of your swords. Remember the name of Pennsylvania. Think 
of your ancestors and of yoxxr posterity.''^ 

¥¥ 

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JLcQt ®atb 

I think it would be interesting to the descendants of our 
Revolutionary forebears to know just what was the " Test 
Oath," the Oath of Allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania, 
taken by the " Subscribers" in 1777-1779, after the Declara- 
tion of Independence, as directed by an act of General As- 
sembly, passed June thirteenth, A. D. 1777. 

*' We the Subscribers do swear (or affirm) that we denounce and reftise 
all allegiance to George the Third, King of Great Britain, and his heirs and 
successors, and that we will be faithfial and bear true allegiance to the Common- 
wealth of Pennsylvania, as a free and independent State, and that we will not, 
at any time, do or cause to be done, any matter or thing that will be prejudicial 
or injurious to the freedom and independence thereof, as declared by Congress, 
and, also, that we will discover, and make known to some justice of the peace 
of the said State, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which we now know, 
or hereafter shall know, to be formed against this or any of the United States 
of America." 

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The following is a partial list of the descendants of the 
Larimer, McMasters, Hughey, Sheakley, McCurdy, and King 
families in the different generations, who served in the wars of 
the United States as patriots — officers and privates : 

Hmerican IRevolutton 

1775-1783 

Thomas Larimer (Laramore), No. 2, Revolutionary War, 
joined May ninth, 1778. Private third vacant company of 
the German regiment, Continental forces in the service of the 
United States, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis 
Weltner. Paid until January first, 1781. Enlisted to serve 
three years, March first, 1781. 

William Sheakley, No, 1, member of the General Com- 
mittee, York County Committee of Observation, Pennsyl- 
vania, November third, 1775. 

George Sheakley, No. 3, ensign Eighth Company, Fourth 
Battalion, John Mcllvaine, captain ; commissioned June seven- 
teenth, 1779. 

Lieutenant Robert McCurdy, No. 5, January ninth, 1777, 
Fifth Battalion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, commanded 
by Colonel James Crawford, Captain James Mercer. (Penna 
Archives, 3d series. Vol. XXIII. page 431.) 

Mombert's Authentic History of Lancaster County Records 
(1777), James Mercer, major, and Robert McCurdy, captain. 
Eighth Company, Seventh Battalion. 

John Hughey, No. 7, frontier duty, 1775, 1776, 1777, 
tours of duty of two months each; 1775, Captain James 
Morrison's company, Colonel Porter; 1776, 1777, Captain 
John Paxton's company. Colonel James Morrison, in Jersey 
campaign. 

Note. — The above-mentioned Thomas Larimer, William Sheakley, 
George Sheakley, Robert McCurdy, and John Hughey were all my lineal 
ancestors. — [R. H. M.] 

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Rev. Dr. John King, No. 4, chaplain, Mercersburg Bat- 
talion, FrankHn County, Pennsylvania. 

Robert King, No. 6, first lieutenant, Captain James Morri- 
son's company, Lancaster Militia, Second Battalion, 1776. 

Captain John McMasters, No. 4, captain Third Company, 
Third Battalion, York County, June seventeenth, 1779. 

Ephraim Hughey, Pennsylvania associator ; in Jersey cam- 
paign. 

John Shcakley, No. 2, ensign Third Company, Second 
Battalion, York County, Pennsylvania. Commissioned June 
seventeenth, 1779, Captain Robert Bigham. 

Colonel Robert Cunningham, Lancaster County, Penn- 
sylvania. 

William Skiles, John Torbett, John McFaden Freeman, 
Robert McCurdy Freeman, and David Glen, were all tax- 
payers in Leacock township in 1779, and belonged to Captain 
James Mercer's company. 

umar of 1812 

Pennsylvania had at one time during the war of 1812-15 
^a greater number of militia and volunteers in the service of 
the United States than were furnished by any other State ; so 
did she furnish more money to carry on the war, although the 
soil of Pennsylvania had been trodden by no hostile foot. 
Pennsylvania spoke out emphatically, resolving to stand by 
the general government, and this course was followed by nearly 
all the States in the Union. On the twelfth of May, 1812, 
Governor Snyder expressed the feelings of the people of his 
native State, in his call for Pennsylvania's quota of fourteen 
thousand militia, when he said : 

"The Revolution of America, that great and mighty struggle which issued 
in giving to the United States that place among the powers of the world to 
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been consummated when the king over which wc had been triumphant began an 
invasion of our rights and property, which has almost uninterruptedly been 
continued and yearly aggravated in kind and degree. For nearly thirty years we 
have been at peace with all the nations of the earth, the gates of prosperity 
and the full tide of happiness have borne us along, while the storm of war has 
been desolating the greater part of the civilized world, and inundating it with 
the bitter waters of affliction. 

* • In the cultivation of the earth, and in manufacturing and transporting its 
products, the people of the United States have been honestly, usefully, and 
harmlessly employed, and for many years have we been feeding the nation 
whose navy has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, and destroyed the 
lives of our people. Our ability and disposition to serve them has whetted 
their commercial jealousy and monopolizing animosity. 

*'It is our property that has been plundered. It is our rights that have 
been invaded. It is the persons of our friends, relatives, and countrymen that 
have been taken captive on the high seas. It is our flag that has been bathed 
in our waters, made red with the blood of our fellow-citizens." 

Such was the enthusiasm of the hour that, in response to 
the governor's call, three times as many troops tendered their 
services as were required. The disappointment of some was 
so great that money was freely offered to secure a place among 
those accepted by the authorities. 

The following are a few of the members of the King and 
Sheakley families who served in the war of 1812 : 

Robert King, captain of a Lancaster County company. 

George Sheakley, captain of an infantry company, at Erie, 
Pennsylvania. 

Moses Sheakley, private. 

Alexander Sheakley, taken sick with camp fever, came 
home and died at his father's house, 1814. 

William Sheakley, private. 

National (Buart) 

William Larimer, Jr., No. 23, served his country as an offi- 
cer of the National Guard of Pennsylvania and Nebraska, and 
in the Civil War. The following are his seven commissions : 

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Commissioned second lieutenant, Eighth Infantry, August 
third, 1828, by John Andrew Shulze, governor of Pennsylvania. 

Commissioned major of the First Battalion of the Sixth 
Regiment, Allegheny County Volunteers, April fifteenth, 1845, 
by Francis R. Shunk, governor of Pennsylvania. 

Commissioned brigadier-general, June fourth, 1848, Penn- 
sylvania troops, by William F. Johnston, governor of Penn- 
sylvania. 

Commissioned major-general, December twenty-second, 
1 852, by William Bigler, governor of Pennsylvania. 

Commissioned captain La Piatt's Guards, October seven- 
teenth, 1855, by Mark N. Izard, governor of Nebraska. 

Commissioned by Hon. James H. Lane, August seventh, 
1862, to proceed to the territory of Colorado and raise the 
Third Regiment Colorado Volunteers. 

Commissioned by Governor Thomas Carney, August 
seventh, 1863, Captain of Company A.,*- Fourteenth Kansas 
Volunteer Cavalry. He served on the Kansas frontier until 
the close of the war. 

Civil m^t 

1861-1865 

I could give no higher words of praise or express myself 
better than to quote from President Theodore Roosevelt's ad- 
dress to the Grand Army of the Republic, encamped at "The 
Weirs," New Hampshire, August twenty-ninth, 1 902 : 

*' Any American who has the proper sense of the relative proportion of 
things must realize that to the men who fought for the Union in the dark days 
of the Civil War there is owing a greater debt of gratitude than to any others. 
Great were the deeds you did and vital the need of doing them, and many 
were the lessons taught the rest of us, both by what you accomplished in the 
war and by the way in which, when the war was over, you turned to the work 
of peace with the same spirit which had led you to triumph on the tented fields. 
During the lifetime of our republic each generation has had its allotted task. 
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work to do for the nation. We have moved forward swiftly or have stumbled 
and halted according as the work, as a whole, was well or ill done. We have 
encountered many crises of importance, and from time to time have been 
brought face to face with great problems, upon the rightful solution of which 
much of the nation's future welfare depended. 

** But to you alone it was given to face with victorious valor the one crisis in 
which not merely the nation's well being but the nation's life was at stake. To 
you it was given to solve the one problem which if not solved aright meant 
death for our people. All of the work of the men who founded this republic 
would have been for nothing had you not done your part well. It was the 
statesmanship of Lincoln, the soldiership of Grant, and the loyal valor of those 
who upheld the arms of the one and followed the sword of the other which 
made permanent the work of Washington, of Marshall, and their compeers. It 
would have profited little to us or to mankind at large if the experiment of free 
government by the people and for the people had been founded upon this 
continent only to go down in bloody wreck on the question of slavery. You 
saved the Union and you freed the slave's master from the worst of all thral- 
doms. You did us the service of struggling in a cause, and for a reward in 
that war based upon naught that was merely material." 

I am very glad to be able to place under this interpretation 
of the cause and effect of the Civil War the names of my 
father, William Larimer, Jr., No. 23, and my four brothers, 
John M. M., No 37, William H. H., No. 39, Thomas, No. 
41, and Cassius, No. 43, all of whom were in the Union army. 
The days of the Civil War were days of dread of news and 
tearful watching in our home in Leavenworth, Kansas, for not 
only was the dread of hearing of my father being wounded, 
captured, or killed, but of my brothers also. 

William Larimer, Jr., No. 23, was the first colonel of the 
Third Regiment of Colorado Volunteers, and recruited part of 
the regiment. He was appointed by General James Lane in 
August, 1862. He was captain under major's pay at the time 
of the Baxter Springs massacre (October sixth, 1 863) of Gen- 
eral Blunt's bodyguard. 

Quantrell and his men were disguised as Federal soldiers. 
General Blunt thought they were Major J. B. Pond's men, 

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who were stationed at Baxter Springs, Kansas, on the border 
of the Indian Territory, and, not thinking they were guerillas, 
the band was about to play for them, when the massacre 
commenced. The members of the band were killed in the 
wagon, and there were over one hundred men lost. For four 
days Captain Larimer was mourned as dead. His life was 
probably saved by his having been appointed Judge Advocate 
of a military court at Fort Scott, and was absent from the 
scene of the massacre. 

My brothers John M. M., William H. H., and Thomas 
belonged to the Seventh Regiment, Kansas State Militia, 
Colonel McFarland commanding; Cassius belonged to the 
First Regiment. They were ordered on duty for nearly a 
month in October, 1864; were ordered into action at the 
battle of Westport, Missouri, October twenty-fourth, but by 
the time they reached the field the Confederates under General 
Sterling Price were retreating south and they were ordered back 
to Leavenworth the next day. They saw the smoke of the 
battle ; also the wounded and the prisoners captured. 

George Sheakley, No. 25, One Hundred and Sixty-Fifth 
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and Joseph and Calvin 
Hamilton, sons of William Sheakley Hamilton, served three 
years in Company K, Thirtieth Regiment Pennsylvania Vol- 
unteers (First Pennsylvania Reserve Corps). Joseph was 
wounded in the seven days' battle before Richmond, Virginia, 
June twenty-sixth, 1862. Calvin was wounded at the battle 
of Gettysburg July second, 1863. 

Service of Jobn Xarimer, IQo. 49, in tbe Civil Mar 

John Larimer was born in the Larimer Homestead, in North 
Huntington township, Westmoreland County, May twenty- 
fourth, 1844. In 1857 he came with his parents to a farm in 
Versailles township, Allegheny County. While attending 
New Wilmington College, before completing his eighteenth 









James Sheakley, No. 20 
Governor of Alaska, 1893-97 

Robert McCurhv, No. 14 Cai.vin Hamilton 

Associate Judge, Adams County, Pennsylvania, Superintendent Gettysburg Cemett-ry 

1869-73 



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year, he enlisted on September fourth, 1861. He joined Com- 
pany E, One Hundred and Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Vol- 
unteer Infantry, and entered the Army of the Potomac under 
Colonel A. A. McKnight. 

Besides some preliminary skirmishes in the Peninsular Cam- 
paign, he participated in the battles of Williamsburg and Fair 
Oaks, and, although his hat and blouse were pierced with bul- 
lets in the latter engagement, he escaped without a scratch, but 
was taken prisoner at the battle of Fair Oaks while trying to 
care for and remove from the field a wounded friend and com- 
rade, the late Colonel Joseph Gray, of this county. After 
fifteen weeks in Salisbury, Libby, and Belle Isle prisons, and 
narrowly escaping death from starvation, he was exchanged, 
and soon discharged on account of disability. After a period 
of rest at home, in 1 863 he recruited a part of Company F, 
Fourteenth Regiment, State Volunteers, and participated in the 
capture of General Morgan. In this company he held the rank 
of first lieutenant under Captain Taggart. 

In the fall of 1864 he recruited eighteen men, whom he 
accompanied as private, and joined the Sixth Pennsylvania 
Heavy Artillery under Colonel Barnes, and was at once made 
first lieutenant. For a time the company did guard duty on 
the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, after which he was made 
ordnance officer on Colonel Barnes's staff, in charge of the 
fortifications about Washington, D. C. He remained until 
discharged in 1865, his services being no longer required. 
Thus at the age of twenty-one years he was possessed of two 
honorable discharges from the United States service and one 
from the State of Pennsylvania. 

In 1868 he married Mary Emily Markle, daughter of 
General C. P. Markle, of Westmoreland County. He died 
December eleventh, 1898, and is buried at the Monongahela 
Cemetery, Braddock, Pennsylvania. 



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(Beneral ^bomas nQcCur^1^ IDincent 

Brigadier-General, by brevet, United States army. Was 
graduated at West Point July first, 1853. Served in hostili- 
ties against the Seminole Indians, 1853-56. Served during the 
rebellion of seceding States, 1861-66, as assistant adjutant- 
general in the army of northeastern Virginia, being engaged in 
the battle of Bull Run, July first, 1861. War Department, 
Was.hington, D. C, in charge of the recruiting service for the 
regular army. Was promoted to brigadier-general by brevet 
for "faithful and meritorious services during the rebellion." 
Is author of many military reports ; " A Sketch of South 
Florida ;" " Lincoln and Stanton ;" " The Military Power of 
the United States ;" " Compensation of Army Officers ;" and 
many other works of great merit. He resides in Washing- 
ton, D. C* 



* For detailed report see Cullum's Register of Officers and Graduates of 
the Military Academy, Congressional Library, Washington, D. C. 

Mrs. Salisbury, in her McCurdy genealogy, mentions Patrick, John, 
David, William, and Daniel, who came from the Isle of Bute, and says John 
was evidently the one called John Turk, and the father of James, who came to 
Lancaster County about 1720. He had, as far as we know, two brothers : 
Archibald, who died in 1737, and John, who settled in the Pequea Valley. Mr. 
Watson Ellmaker says, ** The Watsons, McCurdys, Creightons, Youngs, 
Stuarts, Houstons, and Coopers were of the same clan and intermarried." 

Archibald, who came with James, settled in the Conestoga Valley on the 
north side of the Welsh Mountains, three miles from his brother James, who 
was on the south side and near the mountain. The oldest son of James, who 
was Archibald^, inherited the homestead, which consisted of one hundred and 
fifty acres of land, in 1759. 

Brigadier-General Thomas McCurdy Vincent, U.S.A., ot Washington, 
D. C, claims to be a descendant of the above-mentioned Patrick McCurdy, 
who is said to have married Jennett Stuart, of the Scotch Royal family. His 
ancestors, David and John of Carlisle, served in the War of the American 
Revolution. 

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Thomas McCurdv Vincent 
5rig,idier-Gencral bv brevet U. S. A. 



William I.arimer, Jr. 

Brigadier-GeiuT.il, National Guard, 

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Thomas McMasters 

Captain, National (Juard, Turtle 

Creek, Pennsylvania 



fIDarviaoes 




James Ross Mellon Rachel H. L. Mellon 

Sarah Lucille Mellon 
Rachel Larimer Miller Thomas Mellon, Jr. 



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^1 Vm ILLIAM LARIMER, JR., son of William and 
C ML. M ^"" Sheakley Larimer, was married to Rachel 
^^^rv McMasters, daughter of John and Rachel 
Hughey McMasters, Thursday, October sixteenth, 1834, at the 
residence of her father, at Turtle Creek, by the Rev. Dr. John 
T. Presley. Their nine children were married to the following 
persons : 

Annie E. Larimer was married to Thomas M. Jones, son 
of Jacob A. and Eliza Goshorne Jones, at her father's residence, 
Seneca and Sixth Streets, Leavenworth, Kansas, by Rev. W. W. 
Backus, of the Presbyterian Church, June twenty-fourth, 1 858. 

John McM. Larimer was married to Hallie Collins, at the 
residence of her uncle, Mr. Applegate, Broadway, Leavenworth, 
Kansas, January fifteenth, 1866, by Rev. Earnest S. McBirney, 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Rachel Hughey Larimer was married to James Ross 
Mellon, son of Judge Thomas and Sarah Negley Mellon, 
of Pittsburgh, at her father's residence, five miles south of 
Leavenworth, Kansas, Monday noon, June third, 1867, by 
the Rev. J. G. Reaser, pastor of the Presbyterian Church 
of Leavenworth. 

Edwin King Larimer was married to Mary Elizabeth 
Dunlap, November fourth, 1869, by the Rev. J. G. Reaser, 
of the Presbyterian Church of Leavenworth. 

William H. H. Larimer was married to Martha, daughter 
of David Craig and Jane Cowan Montgomery, February 
twenty-second, 1871, at St. Joseph, Missouri, by the Rev. 
Tackier, of the Southern Presbyterian Church. 

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Cassius Larimer was married to Laura C. Gray, daughter 
of William and Elizabeth Chalfant Gray, January twentieth, 
1873, ^^o miles north of Turtle Creek, by Rev. J. A. Young, 
pastor of the United Presbyterian Church. His second wife 
was Fannie Stewart, of Waukegan, Illinois. 

Joseph McM. Larimer was married to Fannie Louise Sher- 
man, daughter of Alson S. and Aurora Abbott Sherman, at 
Waukegan, Illinois, October fourth, 1876, by Rev. A. Atche- 
son, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

George Larimer was married to Margaret Stibbs Flattery, 
daughter of Lucas Flattery, Esq., Wooster, Ohio, at the resi- 
dence of the bride's cousin, Mr. H. B. Stibbs, Thursday, 
June second, 1881, by Rev. E. R. Burkhalter, of the Pres- 
byterian Church, assisted by Rev. O. Mitter, of the Lutheran 
Church at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

Thomas McMasters Larimer was married to Luella Varney, 
daughter of Edward Varney, December thirtieth, 1885, at 
Leavenworth, Kansas. 

Rachel Hughey Larimer, daughter of Cassius and Laura 
Gray Larimer, and Reuben Miller, Jr., son of Reuben and 
Mary Fleming Miller, were married at the residence of the 
bride's uncle, James Ross Mellon, 400 North Negley Avenue, 
Pittsburgh, at eight o'clock on Wednesday evening, June 
twelfth, 1895, by Rev. Dr. J. P. E. Kumler, of the East 
Liberty Presbyterian Church. 

William Larimer Mellon, son of James Ross and Rachel 
Hughey Larimer Mellon, and Mary Hill Taylor, daughter of 
Mathew and Mary Hill Taylor, of New York, were married 
at eight o'clock Wednesday evening, March eleventh, 1896, 
at her father's winter residence, Emmet Street, Palatka, Florida, 
by the Rev. Dr. J. W. MacGregor, of Palatka. 

John McMasters, son of Thomas and Rachel McWhinney 
McMasters, married Rachel Hughey, daughter of John and 
Elizabeth King Hughey, July third, 1810, at the Hughey 

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Mary Taylor Mei 




Rachel, Margaret, AN-n Matheu Mi 



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Homestead, Plum township, near Turtle Creek, Allegheny 
County, Pennsylvania. Their six children were married to the 
following persons : 

Eliza Ann McMasters was married to Hugh D, King, at 
the residence of her father. Turtle Creek, November second, 
1832, by Rev. Dr. John T.Presley, pastor of the Associate 
Reformed Presbyterian Church. 

Jane McMasters was married to Rev. Joseph Osborn, Au- 
gust first, 1837, at the residence of her father, Turtle Creek, 
by Rev. John T. Presley. 

Nancy McMasters was married to James Irwin, son of 
William and Ann Sheakley Larimer, February seventeenth, 
1842, at Turtle Creek, by Rev. Joseph Osborn, pastor of the 
United Presbyterian Church. 

John McMasters, Jr., was married to Leonora, daughter of 
David and Maria McCune Cowan Markle, of West Newton, 
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, by Rev. Purintan, in 
Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, October twelfth, 1843. 

Rebecca McMasters was married to Rev. John W. Duff, 
at Turtle Creek, by the Rev. Joseph Osborn, of the United 
Presbyterian Church. Her second husband was James Carlisle. 
Thomas McNListers married Margaret Ann Markle, 
daughter of General Cyrus P. and Sarah Ann Lippincott 
Markle, November fifteenth, i860, at the residence of her 
father. West Newton (Mill Grove), Westmoreland County, 
Pennsylvania. 

Mary McMasters Jones, daughter of Thomas Mifflin and 
Annie E. Larimer Jones, was married to William Henry 
Raymond Hilliard, June sixth, 1885, at her father's residence, 
Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, by Rev. J. P. E. Kumler. 

William Larimer Jones, son of Thomas Mifflin and 
Annie E. Larimer Jones, was married to Leila A. Dilworth, in 
East Liberty Church, October twenty-third, 1890, by Rev. 
Dr. Holmes. 

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Willis Larimer King, son of Eliza Ann and Hugh D. 
King, was married to Fanny Millard Morris,* daughter of 
David Alexander Blair Morris and Mary Jean Coltart, October 
fourteenth, 1880, by Dr. William J. Ried. 

The Rachelwood Farms, Laurel Hill near New Florence, 
are so called in honor of my mother. 

Rachel has been a family name, and it may be interesting 
to the Rachels of our family to have a list of them. 

My great-grandmother, Rachel McWhinney McMasters. 

My grandmother, Rachel Hughey McMasters. 

My mother, Rachel McMasters Larimer. 

My name, Rachel Hughey Larimer Mellon. 

My daughter, Rachel (died when she was three months old). 

My granddaughter, Rachel Larimer Mellon. 

Nieces, Rachel McMasters Larimer and Rachel Hughey 
Larimer Miller. 

Cousins, Rachel Larimer Dunlap, Rachel McMasters 
Miller, Rachel Miller, Rachel McMasters Hunter, Rachel 
McMasters Carlisle. 



* Mary West, Mrs. King's paternal great-great-grandmother, was a sister of 
Benjamin West, the artist. Mary Fulton, also a paternal great-grandmother, was 
a sister of Robert Fulton, the inventor, and a relative of Robert Morris. 




Deebs 



Beebs 



JOHI 



TO 

Larimer. 



RoBT. Larimer | Made the 1 8*" July i 7 7 1 . In the 11 ^-^ year of the reign 

of our Sovereign Lord George the 3"* by the grace of God, 
of Great Brittian France, & Ireland King defender of the 
Faith &c Between Rob't Larimer of Berwick Twp Co of 
York and Province of Pa, and John Larimer of same place. Whereas the Hon 
the Propriataries of the Province of Pa. aforesaid by thair Warrant under the 
seal of the land office bearing date at Phila the 26'" of July 1750. did grant to 
a certain Henry Kinghart a tract of land situate in the Twp aforesaid — said 
Warrant remaining in the office of the Surveyors Generals at Phila Pa. 

[Of which the said Henry Kinghart conveyed to Robert Larimer the same 
tract of 200 acres, more or less.] 

Also whereas the Hon the Proptr's of the aforesaid Province by their War- 
rant under Seal of the land Office at Phila dated Sept 19"" 1758 granted to said 
Robt Larimer a certain tract of land adjoining the aforesaid tract of 200 acres 
containing 20 acres more or less, said Warrant on file in Surveyors Genl Office 
at Phila. 

[Which was deeded to John Larimer and his heirs the one-half of said two 
tracts of land containing 220 acres for ^400, deed dated December 19, 
1 77 I, and Recorded Dec. 20, 1771, in Book 2 G. Page 515, etc. 

Then Robert Larimer died intestate and the orphans court was petitioned 
to settle up the estate in which Andrew Mcllvain, a son-in-law, was chosen 
administrator. The following will show the disposition of the estate by the 
administrator :] 



Hn^rew ^cfflvain HMiiin'r Bccount, S,c. 

Balance of % in hand p{^ 1 82. 12s. \id. 

Paid to Sarah Larimer sum of ^^^60, 17/. jd. & T,far. in full for her 3"^ 
part of said Balance as the widow of said Intestate. 

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Paid to Tho's Larimer the sum of ^30, 9/. 4^. in foil for his 2 shares of 
said Balance being the eldest son &c 

Paid to John Larimer the sum of _;^i 5, 4/. 8^. in full for his share of said 
balance being one of the sons of said &c 

Paid to the Representative of W"" Larimer dece'd. the sum of ^^i 5, 4/. Sd. 
he being one of the sons of said &c. 

That he retain the sum of ;^i 5, 4-f. 8^'. in full for the share of Mary his 
wife she being one of the daughters of the said &c. 

Paid to Moses Mcllvain the sum of ;j^i5, 4-f. 8^'. in full for the share of 
Margaret his wife she being one of the daughters of the said &c. 

Paid to John Larimer the sum of ;^I5, 4^. SJ. in full for the share of 
Jean his wife she being another daughter of the said &c. 

Pay to Robert Larimer or his Guardian the sum of ^i 5, 4^. 8^. in full for 
his share of the Balance he being a minor son of the said &c 

[His Guardian was Seth Duncan, of Berwick township, appointed by the 
Court, etc. This account was filed some time in July, 1772, which said several 
sums of money are in full account of the balance in the hands of the said 
administrator.] 

Bec^ 2 

Made the i^' day of Nov. 1773. 

Whereas Thomas Larimer and his wife Catharine of 
Berwick Twp eldest son of Rob't Larimer deced. By 
Warrant under seal of the land office at Phila., Pa. dated 
26''' July 1750 unto Henry Kinghart of Berwick Twp & Co of York, Pa., for 
200 Acres. 

[And said Kinghart conveyed by his deed dated May 14, 1765, to Robert 
Larimer, 200 acres. 

And then by warrant from land office at Philadelphia, dated September 
19, 1758, granted to Robert Larimer a piece of land in Berwick township, 
adjoining the aforesaid tract, containing 20 acres. 

And then Robert Larimer to John Larimer, July 18, 1771. And then the 
said Robert Larimer died intestate some time after, (I failed to find the date of 
death,) and seized of the undivided moiety or one-half part of the said two parcels 
of land and buildings thereon standing, etc., leaving Sarah Larimer, his widow, 
entitled to dower, etc. Also his eldest son, Thomas Larimer, entitled to a double 
share, and also John Larimer and sundry issue. Upon which a writ directed to 
Samuel Edie, Esq., high sheriff, and he was commanded to make partition of 
certain improvement containing 130 acres, situate in Berwick township, the 

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TO 

John Larimer 



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estate of Robert Larimer, deceased, on which the sheriff did at an orphan's 
court of York County, on September i8, 1772, make his return of said prop- 
erty valued at ;;^28o. The court ordered and decreed that the said Thomas 
Larimer, by paying several sums of money to the widow and the heirs or guar- 
dian, did become possessor of the property. This deed was executed before 
a justice of the peace on December 18, 1773, and recorded in Book 2 G, page 
516, etc.] 

Bn Bccount 

[I also find an account filed in the clerk's office, dated March 24, 1775, as 
follows :] 

Came unto Court Jane Larimer Executrix of the last Will & Testament of 
William Larimer deced, and produced the «/<, of the Estate of said testator 
settled with the Register which appears to be a balance in hands of said Estate 
of the amount, £,^'}), 15^. ^d. which «/(, was approved by the said Court & 
ordered the said Ex to apply said balance agreeable to the last Will and testa- 
ment of said testator. 

[From your letter you have a copy of the above will, which was dated 
October 15, 1773 ; testators lived in Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania.] 



1768 

Rob't McPherson Co. Treasurer, Dr. 

To Commissioners order for year. 
No. 38 John Larimer ..... Tax -Q\, loj. od. 

[The above order allowed and settled.] 

Dceb 3 

Thomas Larimer Sr Made & signed the io"> day of December, 1796, 

between Thomas Larimer Sen. of Mountjoy Town- 
ship County of York Pa. for the love & affection I 
bear to my son Thomas Larimer J^ & for the better 
settling him in the world & for the further sum of Five Shillings to me in hand 
paid by the said Thomas Larimer J^ A Certain part of the Tract of land in 
Mountjoy Twp of York Co whereon I now dwell. The part hereby granted 
bounded &c Beginning at a white oak, a corner of Nicholas Shirley & heirs of 
Henry Mayer's land & thence by Nicholas Shirley's land to a corner of land 

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late of Ludwick Miller thence with Millers land as far as will be sufficient, 
thence by the other part of the same tract until it intersects Mayes' or Der- 
borson land Thence unto the place of Beginning, To Contain loo Acres & 
the usual allowance &c. to be held for and during My Natural life & from and 
after my decease & to be held by him & his heirs & assigns forever. 

[This deed was signed before a justice of the peace on the 14th day of 
December, 1796, and recorded in Book 2 N, pages 106 and 107, the 9th 
day of January, 1798.] 

power of Bttorne\? 

[Victor Larimer, of Mercersburgh, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, gave 
a power of attorney to one William Gilliland, Esq., of Straban township, York 
County, dated April 9, 1796, to sell for him two lots of ground adjoining 
lands of William Scott, Esq., and Cornelius Cozine, or to lease and rent for 
him. Recorded in Book 2 O, page 142, on April 23, 1799. I fail to find 
any deeds on record in this case. You will please observe the assessments of 
this party.] 

WCC^ 4 

This Indenture made the second Day of March in the year of our Lord 
one thousand seven hundred and eighty Between Hugh Wilson and Thomas 
Wilson of Cumberland Township in the County of York and State of Penn- 
sylvania Executors of the Testament and last Will of Thomas Wilson late of 
Cumberland Township in the County and State aforesaid yeoman Deceased of 
the one part and Robert McCurdy late of Leacock Township in the county 
of Lancaster and State aforesaid yeoman of the other part 

tVhereas by virtue of an order from the Land office at Philadelphia dated 
the Nineteenth day of June in the year of our Lord 1765. There was Sur- 
veyed and laid out unto the said Thomas Wilson in his lifetime, to wit on 
the twenty sixth day of June in the year of our Lord 1765 a certain Planta- 
tion and tract of land in the said township of Cumberland. Beginning at a 
Black Oak thence by land of William McCreedy North 40° forty perches to a 
Black Oak thence North i 3 ° east 1 1 4 perches to a Black Oak thence North 
13° east one hundred and fourteen perches to a Black Oak, thence North fifty 
live Degrees East 44 perches to a Post, thence by land of Robert Work East, 
one hundred and twenty two Perches to a Post thence South sixty Degrees 
East fifty nine Perches and a quarter to an Ash thence East sixty six Perches to 
a stone thence North four perches and seven tenths of a perch to a Post thence 

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East seventeen Perches to a Post thence South four Perches and seven tenths 
of a perch thence East (?) eight Perches to a Hickory Grub thence by Land 
of the Widow Lesley and Hugh Dunwoody South twenty nine Degrees West 
two hundred and (?) Perches to a White Oak thence by Land of William 
(Lot ?) Junior South Eighty Degrees West fifty (?) Perches to a Post thence 
South eighteen Degrees West (?) Perches to a White Oak thence south forty 
five Degrees West fifty one Perches to a White oak thence (?) Land North 
forty Degrees West one hundred and fifty seven Perches to a Heap of Stones 
thence North five degrees west, one hundred and forty six perches to the place 
of beginning : Containing three hundred and nineteen acres and three quarters 
of an acre and four perches. 

And Whereas the said Thomas Wilson, in his life Claimed and improved a 
piece of land adjoining the above described tract. Reference being had to the 
said and return now remaining in the surveyor General's Office at Philadelphia 
may more fully appear. 

And Whereas the said Thomas Wilson in his lifetime did erect sundry 
buildings and improvements upon the aforesaid land and afterwards died having 
first made his Testament and last Will in writing and thence nominated and 
appointed his two sons the aforesaid Hugh Wilson and Thomas Wilson Ex- 
ecutors of the said Testament and last Will and thereby authorized the said 
Lands to be sold by his said Executors within three years after his Decease as 
by the said Will dated the eleventh Day of December in the year of our Lord 
one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight duly proved and remaining in the 
Registers office at York may fully appear 

And Whereas the said Hugh Wilson and Thomas Wilson after the Death 
of their Father the aforesaid Thomas Wilson Deceased to wit the (?) Day of 
October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine 
in pursuance of the directions of the said Testament and last will and by virtue 
of the powers and authority to them, by the said will given, sold the said 
plantation and tract of land with the improvements thereon made and erected, 
and also the claim of the improved and unlocated land adjoining unto the said 
Robert McCurdy for the sum of Ten thousand Pounds lawful money of 
Pennsylvania. 

Now this Indenture Witnesseth that the said Hugh Wilson and Thomas 
Wilson, executors of the Testament and last will of the said Thomas Wilson 
deceased, by virtue of the power and authority to them given by the said will 
and in discharge of the Trust in them reposed by the said Testator and con- 
sideration of the said sum of Ten thousand Pounds lawful Money of Pennsyl- 
vania to them in Hand paid by the said Robert McCurdy (?) 

and delivery (?) bargain, sell release and confirm unto the said 

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Robert McCurdy his Heirs and assigns the above described Plantation and 
Tract of Land Containing three hundred and nineteen Acres and a quarter 
of an Acre and four Perches, and the usual allowance of six Acres per cent for 
Highways as also all the Claim of the aforesaid Improved and unlocated 
piece Land adjoining (?) and Andrew Johnston and the aforesaid Surveyed 
and described Tract Together (?) and singular the Houses Out Houses Build- 
ings Improvements, Woods, Ways, Waters, Water Course, liberties privileges 
Hereditaments, Rights, members and Appurtenances, What-so-ever to the same 
two tracts or pieces of Land belonging or in any wise appertaining and the 
Reversions and Remainders, Rents, Issues, and profits, thereof and also all the 
Estate, Right, Title Interest, Possession, Property Claim and Demand what- 
so-ever either in Law or in equity of him the said Thomas Wilson in his life 
time and at the time of his Death of in and to the Premisses aforesaid, and 
every part and parcel (?) and all Deeds Evidences and Writing touching or 
Concerning the same 

To Have and To Hold The said two above described tracts of land and 
Premises with the Appurtenances and (?) unto the said Robert McCurdy his 
Heirs and Assigns to the only proper use and behoof of said Robert McCurdy 
his Heirs and Assigns for ever for such Estate and Estates as the said Thomas 
Wilson in his lifetime and at the Time of his Death held and enjoyed the 
same under and subject to the payment of the purchase Money Interest Quit 
Rents and other Reservations due growing due and to be paid out of the same 
to the Chief Lord of Lords of the Fee thereof And the said Hugh Wilson 
and Thomas Wilson Executors of the Testament and last Will of the said 
Thomas. 

Entered in the Office for Recording of (?) for the County of York 

on the eighth day of December (?) and Recorded in Book A & page 401 (?) 
Day of March 1781. 

Given under my Hand and Seal, Office at York. 

Archibald McLean, 

Recorder. 




Mills 



Mills 



Mill of ITbonias Xaviiner, IRo, 2 

Hn tbC name of (B0& HmeU, I Thomas Lommer of Mountjoy 
Township in the County of Adams & State of Pennsylvania, being in my 
usual health, & of sound mind memory & understanding, Blessed be God for 
the same, Do make & publish thij my last Will & Testament in manner & 
form Following, that is to say — Principally & first of all I commend my 
immortal Soul into the hands of God who gave it & my body to the earth to 
be buried in a decent & christian like manner at the discretion of my Executors 
hereinafter named : & as to such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God 
to bless me in this life, I give & dispose of the same as follows Viz. 

first. It is my will & I do order & direct that all my Just debts Sc flineral 
expences shall be first paid out of my Estate, by my Executors hereinafter 
named. 

Item, I Give & bequeath unto my well beloved wife Catharine the full 
& free use & priviledge of my whole Estate Real & Personal for & during the 
term of her natural life — & at her decease, the Personal property to be sold &, 
(her funeral expences being first paid) the residue thereof I give & bequeath to 
my seven children to be divided equally amongst them, share & share alike. 

Item, I Give & devise unto my son William Lorrimer his heirs & assigns 
forever, all that plantation in Mountjoy Township whereon I now dwell. Con- 
taining One hundred & seven acres more or less — It being part of a larger tract 
of land the residue whereof I have heretofore conveyed to my son Thomas 
Lorrimer, & to my soninlaw Moses McElwain ; this devise subject neverthe- 
less to the Bequest hereinbefore made to my wife Catharine. . . . 

Item, I Give & Bequeath to my daughter Margaret intermarried with 
James Duff, one Bond which I have on my son William Lorrimer for the sum 
of One hundred pounds, bearing equal date herewith & payable one year after 
my decease. 

Item, I Give & Bequeath to my daughter Mary, intermarried with Moses 
McElwain, one other Bond which I have on my said Son William Lorrimer 
for the sum of one hundred pounds, bearing equal date herewith & payable 
two years after my decease. 

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Item. I Give & Bequeath to my other four children viz Sidney inter- 
married with William Johnston, Nancy intermarried with John Johnston, 
Elizabeth intermarried with Robert Boyd & Thomas Lorrimer one other bond 
which I have on my said son William Lorrimer for the sum of One hundred 
pounds bearing equal date herewith & payable three years after my decease ; 
to be divided equally between my said four children Twenty five pounds to 
each of them. 

And lastly, I do hereby nominate, constitute & appoint my friend George 
Shekly & my soninlaw Moses McElwain to be the Executors of this my Will, 
hereby revoking all former Wills, Legacies & bequests by me made, & declaring 
this & no other to be my last Will & testament — 

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the Ninth day 
of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred & Nine 
(1809). 

Tho' Larrimer [seal] 

Signed sealed, published pronounced 
& declared, by the said Thomas Lorrimer 
to be his last Will and Testament, in the 
presence of us, who, in his presence & at 
his request, have subscribed our names as 
Witnesses — 

Moses Jenkins 
William Shekley 
A Russell 

Note before signing — I do also give & bequeath to my wife Catharine 
aforesaid, one bond which I have on my son William Lorrimer for thirty 
pounds bearing equal date herewith & payable one month after my decease — 
but & if my said wife shall not survive me, it is my Will & I order that the 
said bond shall be given up to my said son William Lorrimer with out 
payment — 

Adams county ss 

Before me James Duncan Esq. Register for the probate of wills and granting 
letters of Administration in and for the county of Adams in the State of Penn- 
sylvania, personally Came Alexander Russell one of the Subscribing witnesses to 
the foregoing instrument of writing and on his Solemn oath doth say, that he was 
personally present and Saw and heard the therein named Thomas Larrimer sign 
his name unto and Seal & publish the named foregoing instrument of writing as 
and for his last will and testament, and at the time of doing thereof he the said 
Thomas Larrimer was of a Sound and disposing mind, memory and understand- 

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ing to the best of his knowledge and belief, and that he Subscribed his name 
thereto as a witness in the presence of the said Testator and at his request, and 
that he also saw the other Witness William Shekley subscribe his name thereto 
as a witness in the presence of the said Testator and at his request at the same 
time 

A Russell 
Sworn and Subscribed before me at Gettysburg the 9th day of September 

A.D. 1816 

James Duncan Reg. 

Adams county // 

Before me James Duncan Esq. Register for the probate of wills, and 
granting letters of Administration, in and for the county of Adams in the State 
of Pennsylvania, Personally Came William Shekley one of the Subscribing wit- 
nesses to the foregoing Instrument of writing, and on his Solemn oath doth say 
that he was personally present and saw and heard the therein named Thomas 
Larrimer sign his name unto and seal and publish the foregoing instrument of 
writing as and for his last will and testament and at the time of doing thereof 
he the said Thomas Larrimer was of sound and disposing mind memory and 
understanding to the best of his knowledge and belief: and that he subscribed 
his name thereto as a witness, in the presence of the Testator and at his request, 
and that he also saw the other Witness Alexander Russell Subscribe his name 
as a witness in the presence of the said Testator and at his request, at the 
same time. 

William Shekley 

Sworn & Subscribed before me at Franklin township. Witness being sick 
& unable to attend Sept. 9th 18 16. 

James Duncan Reg. 

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, "I 
County of Adams, j 

I, Simon P. Stover, Register for Probate oi Wills and Granting Letters 
of Administration in and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby 
CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the last 
[sealJ Will and Testament, together with the Probate thereof, of 
Thomas Larrimer, late of Adams county. Pa., deceased, as 
taken from and compared with the original remaining on file in the Register's 
office of Adams county, Pennsylvania. 

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the 
seal of office this Nineteenth day of April, a.d. 1897. 

Simon P. Stover, Register. 
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Mill or Mtlliam Xarimcr, Si\, Iflo. 9 

Hn tbe name of (Bob, Hmen ; i, wmiam Larimer of North 

Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, Penna., being weak in body- 
but of sound and disposing mind do therefore make and publish this my last 
Will and Testament, in the manner following, that is to say. 

First. I commend my soul to Almighty God, and my body to be buried 
at the direction of my family and Executors hereinafter named, and I desire 
all my just debts and funeral expenses to be paid as soon as may be by my 
Executors. 

Second. I desire and will that my property real, personal and mixed be 
disposed of as follows : — 

To William, Hamilton, James, Anne Jane, Thomas and Mary E., in the 
respective portions or shares as hereinafter mentioned — in as much as my daugh- 
ters Catharine Fleming & Margaret Ann Taylor (in her lifetime) have each 
received their ftill shares and my sons John Larimer and George Larimer have 
also received their full shares, and my daughter Martha Hughs being wealthy 
and needing no assistance therefore I devise to her a present of Fifty Dollars in 
full of her share. 

Third. I devise to my son Wilham the residue of the farm in Allegheny 
County being about One Hundred Acres lying East and adjoining the land that 
I have conveyed to George, and I charge the said land hereby with the pay- 
ment of a legacy to Ann Jane, and on payment of the said legacy by my son 
William, I do hereby authorize my Executors or the survivor of them to 
execute to the said William his heirs and assigns a Deed in fee for the same. 

Fourth. I devise to my son Hamilton the lot of ground on which* the 
stone house is situated being a triangular piece of ground lying within the three 
roads containing about Four Acres more or less with the appurtenances, which 
said lot of ground together with what he has already received from me is in full 
of his share out of my estate. 

Fifth. I devise to my daughter Jane Ann, One Thousand Dollars in 
full of her share out of my real estate. 

Sixth. The Mansion Farm whereon I now live I devise to my sons 
James and Thomas, said farm is bounded on the East by land of Wm. Hind- 
man, on the West by Byerly and others, on the North by Byerly, and on the 
South by Jeffries and Kintick, and contains Two Hundred and Eighty Acres 
more or less. The said land and farm with the appurtenances to be held and 
enjoyed by my beloved wife Ann untill my youngest child shall arrive at the 
age of Twenty-one Years, at which time the estate hereby granted to the said 

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James and the said Thomas shall commence and vest in them, their heirs and 
assigns, subject to the third of the profits and proceeds of said farm which, 
from that time, shall be paid and delivered to my said wife Ann during her 
natural Hfe. 

Seventh. I devise to my son Thomas Five Shares of stock in the 
Greensburg and Pittsburgh Turnpike Road Company, and to James Fifty 
Dollars in stock in the Mt. Pleasant & Pittsburgh Turnpike Road Company, 
which said stock I hereby authorize my Executors to transfer on the respective 
books of said Companies to the said James & Thomas as aforesaid. 

Eighth. I devise to my daughter Mary C. One Thousand Dollars to 
be paid to her out of my real estate devised to James and Thomas for the pay- 
ment of which said legacy the said Mansion Farm is hereby charged. And 
also to my said daughter Jane and Mary two-fifths of all my personal estate 
after my debts and funeral expenses are paid. 

Ninth. I devise the rest and residue of my estate to James, Thomas, 
and my beloved wife Ann, share and share alike, and desire that the family 
remain together on the farm as they now, and untill such time as they shall 
respectively commence the world for themselves. 

Tenth, The legacies payable to Anne Jane and to Mary shall have no 
interest and shall be payable only upon their arriving at the age of Twenty- 
one Years, after which time if said legacies are not paid interest ought to be 
charged. 

And Lastly. I do hereby constitute and appoint my sons John Larimer 
& George Larimer Executors of this my last Will and Testament hereby 
revoking all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made. 



^j/f2i.t'i- 4^ et^iO'f^i^F^ 



[seal] 



Sept. 8, 1838. 



Signed, sealed, published and declared as & for Testator's last Will and 
Testament as at his request in presence of said Testator and of each other we 
have subscribed the same as witnesses. 

William Logan. 
John F. Beaver. 

Legally proved and approved this Twenty-fifth day of September A.D. 
1838, same day recorded and Letters Testamentary issued to the Executors. 
Executors sworn before 

John Row, Reg'r. 
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State of Pennsylvania, | 
County of Westmoreland, j 

I, Samuel C. Stevenson, Register of Wills, in and for State and County- 
aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the 
Will of William Larimer as the same remains of record in Will Book Vol. 2, 
page 408, in my Office at Greensburg, Pa. 

Given under my hand and official seal this 14th day of July, a.d. 1902. 
[seal] Samuel C. Stevenson, Register. 



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mm of ratlltam Xarlmer, Hlo, 4 

Hn tbe name Ot (30t) Bmen. The fourteenth day of July in 
the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy-three. I 
William Larimer of the Town of Hanover in the County of York and Prov- 
ince of Pennsylvania, Schoolmaster, Being very weak in Body but of sound 
& disposing mind and memory blessed be god do make and ordain this my 
last Will and Testament. 

Imprimis. I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave 
it, and my body to the Earth from whence it came, to be Burried in a Chris- 
tian, and decent like manner at the discretion of my Executrix, nothing doubt- 
ing but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same by the mighty 
power of god. 

And as touching such worldly Estate as it has pleased God to Bless me 
with, I dispose of it as follows, to wit : 

First. I order that all my Just debts, and Funeral Expenses be paid by 
my Executrix in a reasonable Time after my death. 

Secondly. I give and Bequeath unto my beloved Wife Jane Larimer 
the One Third part of all my Household Goods. Likewise the One Third 
part, of my share of my Father (Robert Larimers) Estate which becomes pay- 
able to me the twenty second day of September next ensuing. 

Thirdly. I give and bequeath unto my Beloved Children Victor & 
Mary Larimer the remaining two thirds of all my Estate both Real & Personal 
Likewise the Remaining two thirds of my part of my Fathers Estate to be 
equally divided betwixt them share, and share alike, and it is my desire that 
if my daughter should happen to be carried off by this present disorder that 
now she labours under that her part shall be equally divided betwixt my Wife, 
& Son. And further it is my Will and desire that my Executrix may sell by 

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way of Publick Vendue all my Household Goods, and Furniture in a Reason- 
able Time after my discease. 

And lastly I do nominate and appoint my Well beloved Wife whole & 
Sole Executrix of this my Last Will & Testament, Ratifying and confirming 
this and no other to be my Last Will & Testament. 

Witness my hand and seal the day and year first above written. 

Wm Larimer [seal] 

Signed, Sealed, Published, and 
declared by the said William Larimer, 
as & for his Last Will & Testament in 
the Presence of us. 

Thos Larimer 
John Larimer. 
York County, js : 

Before me Samuel Johnston Esquire, Deputy Register for the Probate of 
Wills and Granting Letters of Administration in and for the County of York 
in the Province of Pennsylvania personally appeared Thomas Larimer and John 
Larimer the two subscribing Witnesses to the foregoing Instrument of Writing 
and being duly sworn on the holy Evangelies of Almighty God do Depose 
and say that they were personally present and saw and heard William Larimer, 
the Testator in the foregoing Instrument of writing named sign seal publish and 
declare the same as and for his last Will and Testament that at the time of 
doing thereof the said William Larimer was of sound disposing Mind, Memory 
and understanding according to the best of these Deponents knowledge and 
belief and that they there subscribed their Names as Witnesses to the same in 
the presence of the said Testator and at his request. 

Tho' Larimer 
John Larimer. 

Sworn & subscribed before me at York the 15th day of October 1773. 

SamL Johnston Dej>. Reg. 
[A true copy compared with the original at York.] 

Memorandum. 

That Letters Testamentary in Common form were granted to Jane 
Larimer of the Estate of William Larimer, late o^ York County Yeoman 
deceased. Inventory to be Exhibited into the Registers Ofiice at York at or 
before the fifteenth Day of November next and an account or Reckoning at or 
before the fifteenth Day of October next. Given under my hand and the seal 
of said Ofiice at York this 15th day of October 1773. 

Sam^ Johnston Dep Reg 
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
York County, 

I, John H. Wanbaugh, Register for the Probate of Wills and granting 
Letters Testamentary and of Administration for the County of York, in the 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true 
and accurate copy of the last Will and Testament of William Larimer, of the 
town of Hanover, York County, State of Pennsylvania, as the same remains 
on file and of record in this office. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and official seal at 
York, the 19th day of April, a.d. 1897. 

John H. Wanbaugh, 
[seal] Register of Wills. 



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IWIlin of 3obn fiDcflnastere, mo. 4 

tn tbe name of (30t) BmCn. l, John M'=Masters of the Town- 
ship of Plum, County of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, Being of Sound 
mind, thanks be to God for the same, do declare this my last Will & Testa- 
ment. 

First, I will that all such debts as I shall justly owe at the time of my 
disease, and my funeral charges and expenses be in the first place paid by my 
Executors hereinafter named. Item I devise and bequeath to my beloved 
neice Rebecca Perry, my four lots opposite the Garrison in Pittsburgh, to have 
and to hold the said lots to the use of her the said Rebecca and her heirs 
forever, or one thousand dollars, at her option. And in case she chooses or 
prefers the one thousand dollars, I will that my Executors sell the lots but not 
under that sum. 

I also bequeath to her what her aunt may think proper of the Household 
furniture, out of what may be in the house at the time of my decease, with 
all her clothes. Saddle, Bridle and a horse or mare worth one hundred dollars 
and two cows. 

Item. 1 give and bequeath to my nephew Joseph M'^Masters five hundred 
dollars, — three hundred of which 1 have sent to him by Mr. John Grove in 
Fall last, and since I gave an order in his favor on James Gurthrie, Esquire, of 
Greensburg for one hundred more. My meaning and intention is that he 

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should have in addition to the above mentioned four hundred dollars, one 
hundred more out of that money which is due to me from the Treasury of 
Westmoreland County, making in the whole five hundred dollars. Item, I 
give and bequeath to my dear and beloved sister-in-law Hannah Perry, wife of 
James Perry, merchant of Charlestown fifty dollars. Item, to my brother-in- 
law John Irwin of Turtle Creek, I leave two hundred dollars in order to enable 
him to pay some installments due from him to David Wallace for the farm 
whereon he now lives, to be paid as follows, to wit, on the first day of April, 
come a year after my desease one hundred dollars, and on the first day of the 
succeeding April, the remaining one hundred. Item I leave to Polly Duncan, 
wife of David Duncan ten dollars. Item I leave to my bound boy, Timothy 
Calaghan two good oxen with their chains & yoke and a horse or mare, — 
the oxen and the horse or mare to be worth not less than one hundred and fifty 
dollars in cash to be paid to him one year after my desease. 

Item I give and bequeath to my nephew John M^Masters, who now lives 
with me, my farm on the hill called, in the patent Jacobs Ladder, with twenty- 
five acres of the fields adjoining off the farm on which I now live, to be 
laid off^ in that manner that will be least injurious to the last mentioned farm 
and most usefiil to the farmer — to have and to hold to him and his heirs forever. 
Item I give and bequeath to him one half of the tavern or house and lot in the 
borough of Pittsburg known by the name of the " Bear." and one half of my 
Personal Estate, to him and his heirs forever. 

Item I give and bequeath to my dear & beloved wife Jane M''Masters the 
other half of the tavern or house and lot described as above with the half of all 
my remaining estate real, personal or mixed of what nature or kind soever, the 
personal to her forever and the real to her during the term of her natural life, 
and in case she shall remain my widow, and die in that state of widowhood, I 
leave one half of said estate real to her disposal at her death by will. In case 
she marries that whole of the plantation on which I now live and her half of 
the '* Bear" shall go to the aforesaid John M'''Masters and his heirs forever, — 
upon her death (if she continues a widow) the half of the plantation and one 
half of her half of the " Bear" shall go to him the said John M''Masters, and 
his heirs forever. 

Item I leave to John M''Masters son of my late brother Robert M''Masters 
of the County of Down in Ireland fifty dollars, and if any of the children of 
my brother James or my brother Thomas bear the name of John, I leave to 
such children fifty dollars each. 

And it is my earnest desire and request to all and every person interested or 
in any way concerned in this instrument, that if any difficulty or doubt shall 
arise as to the construction of this my last will and testament, or as to what 

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way my intention as to the disposal of my estate that they apply to three or 
more good men to compare the several parts of this my last will & testament to 
explain my true intent and meaning and that they be governed by such con- 
struction as those men amacably chosen may give, & I do hereby appoint my 
dear and beloved wife Jane M'^Masters and my nephew John M^Masters execu- 
tors of this my last will & testament hereby revoking all former Wills by me at 
any time heretofore made, and I do hereby declare this my last will & testa- 
ment. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this twenty- 
seventh day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and five. 

Jno McMasters [seal] 
Signed and Sealed in the presence of us 

Robert Galbraith 
John Thompson 

N. B. It is my intention and I hereby order that in case my beloved wife 
Jane should marry after my decease, that she shall hold, injoy and receive the 
occupation. Rents, Issues and profits of the one half of Tavern and lot in Pitts- 
burgh called the "Bear" and the one half of the Farm upon which I now 
live, during her natural life, but that she shall not have any power or authority 
to convey the same at or before her death but that at her disease the same shall 
go to my nephew John McMasters before mentioned. In witness whereof I 
have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty-seventh day of February in the 
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five. 

Jno. McMasters. 
Signed & Sealed in the presence of us 

Robert Galbraith 
John Thompson 



Copp ot probate 

Allegheny County js. 

On the fourth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- 
dred and five, before the subscriber. Register for the probate of Wills &c. , in 
and for the county aforesaid, came Robert Galbraith and John Thompson, the 
two subscribing witnesses to the foregoing Will, who being duly sworn ac- 
cording to law, deposeth and saith that they were personally present & did see 
John McMasters, the testator. Sign seal and deliver the foregoing as and for his 
last Will and testament, and they did hear him publish, pronounce and declare 

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it as such, and that he was of sound mind and memory at the time of so doing 
to of these deponents knowledge. Witness my hand 

for Samuel Jones Reg*^ 

L. Stewart. 



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mm of 3obn flDcflHasters, mo* 

I John M'=Masters of Plum Township, Allegheny County being of weak 
body but of sound mind and memory (Thanks be to God for the same) Do 
make and publish this my last Will and Testament as follows : 

First to my beloved wife Rachel I give and bequeathe during her natural 
life the rents, issues and profits or produce of the farm now occupied by Archi- 
bald Robinson, Also that occupied by S. Carlisle, and also the homestead farm 
on which I reside also the Dividends of one hundred shares of Greensburgh & 
Pittsburgh Turnpike Road Company stock. And I bequeathe to her absolutely 
to dispose of as she pleases the fiirniture and bedding &c in my dwelling house; 
and the sum of five thousand dollars in cash to be paid to her by my son 
Thomas out of the property hereinto devised to him. To be paid to her in 
annual instalments of five hundred dollars each, without interest. The first 
instalment to be paid at the expiration of one year after my decease. 

Second. I bequeathe to my son John the sum of one hundred dollars ; and 
I devise to Daniel Negley, Duncan Hamilton and William Young merchant, 
and the survivors or survivor of them and their heirs, all my interest and estate 
in possession or remainder in the Haslitt property at the two mile run by me 
purchased of William Haslitt. Also all that Tavern stand and yard and black- 
smith and Wagon maker shops in the city of Pittsburgh on which property my 
son John now resides, Said Tavern property to commence on Virgin Alley 
ninety feet from the corner of Alexander M'^Clurgs property on Virgin Alley and 

Page I. John M-^Masters. 

thence in a direct line from Virgin Alley to the large corner post at Greer's 
corner at the opening into Liberty Street. And including all the ground and 
buildings between that line and Seventh Street usually rented with and occu- 
pied by the tavern. To have and to hold to them as aforesaid, and for their 
use in Trust nevertheless and Special Confidence for the following recited uses 
and purposes and not otherwise, viz to permit and allow my son John to have 
and receive the rents issues and profits thereof during his natural life for his own 
and his family's support, without being subject to the power or control of his 

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creditors. Subject, however to the payment of the sum of Seven thousand 
dollars with its interest, to William Larrimer being a debt which my son John 
owes to him and to be paid by my said trustees and my son John out of said 
rents issues and profits in annual instalments of one thousand dollars each The 
first instalment to be paid at the expiration of one year after my decease, and 
further to allow and permit my said son John to make such improvements on 
said property as he shall think proper, giving my said Son power to manage 
said property and receive the rents for the uses and purposes aforesaid. And 
in case on partition of said Haslitt property not being made the same should be 
sold. Then my share of the proceeds of such sale to be applied to the improve- 
ment of the Tavern property or the purchase of other property, to be held in 
trust as aforesaid for the same uses and purposes as the Tavern property aforesaid. 
And on the decease of my said son John I divise said property to his son John. 

Page 2. John M^Masters. 

and his heirs and assigns forever, And provided my said grand son should die 
under the age of twenty one, and without issue : then I devise the same to any 
other son of my said son John bearing the same name, and provided my son 
John leaves no son of that name, I give him power to devise said property by 
last Will and Testament as he shall see proper, and in case he shall die intestate, 
— making a will and without a son bearing his name I devise the property 
aforesaid to his heirs generally without distinction. 

Third to my daughter Mrs Eliza Ann King & her heirs I devise the fol- 
lowing designated three houses with their appurtenances fronting on the Dia- 
mond Pittsburgh viz, the house occupied by M'^Elroy, — the house occupied by 

having the Bow window, and the house occupied by Carson on the 

corner of Market Alley, together with the ground on which said houses are 
erected and the vacant ground in the rear of said houses fronting on Market 
Alley. 

Fourth to Mrs Rachel Larrimer and her heirs I devise the two houses 
fronting on Liberty Street, one of which is occupied by William Schiner, the 

other by Flaherty, and also the house occupied by at the entrance into 

the Tavern yard on Seventh Street to have and to hold said three houses with 
their lots of ground and appurtenances to her the said Rachel Larrimer and 
her heirs forever. 

Fifth to my daughter Mrs Jane Osborne and her heirs I divise and 
Page 3, John M'^Masters. 

bequeath the sum of five thousand dollars in cash to be paid to her by my son 
Thomas out of the property hereinafter devised to him, and to be paid without 
interest in annual instalments of five hundred dollars each, first instalment to be 
paid one year after my decease. Also all the land including the two farms now 

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occupied by Samuel Davison to extend as far as to the lane that runs from 
Samuel M'^Cullough's to the creek, and also the piece of land with the appur- 
tenances supposed to contain four acres, and on which she and her husband the 
Rev Joseph Osborne now reside. 

Sixth I devise to my two daughters Nancy and Mary as tenants in common 
and to their heirs. All that house and lot on the corner of Liberty & Seventh 
Streets now occupied by Woodson the Barber and also all that lot or piece of 
ground with the appurtenances now in the occupancy of William Stevenson 
and known as the " Black Bear" Tavern property in the corner of the Dia- 
mond. 

Seventh to my daughter Rebecca I devise and bequeathe the sum of five 
thousand dollars in cash to be paid her by my son Thomas in equal annual instal- 
ments of five hundred dollars each out of the property hereinafter devised to him. 
First instalment to be paid one year after my decease. And all which is not paid 
within five years after my decease to bear interest from and after the expiration of 
five years until paid. Also to her and her heirs all that house and lot on Wylie 

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street now occupied by William Curry. 

Eighth, To my son Thomas and his heirs I bequeathe and devise all those 
five houses with their lots and appurtenances on Market Street and the Dia- 
mond, which houses are now occupied by Russell Cannon 

Kenzie & Albree, and Mrs Ambercrombie, also all that part of the 

Chalfant land adjoining the homestead place to be divided from the other part 
of the property hereinafter devised to Joseph by a line commencing at a 
marked tree on the left hand side of the road as you go to Robert Carothers, 
thence between the Tavern and the barn to the Creek & over the Creek to 
the line on the sand bar also one half the wood land on Powell tract, and at 
his mother's decease I devise to him and his heirs the homestead tract on which 
I now reside, and on part of which said Carlisle now resides. Also at his 
mother's decease I bequeathe to him one half my Turnpike Stock before men- 
tioned. He to pay the respective legacies by me mentioned herein for him to 
pay out of said property. 

Ninth I bequeathe and devise to my son Joseph the remaining half part of 
the Chalfant tract and Woodland on Powell tract, also the remaining half part of 
my Turnpike Stock. Also those six five story houses fronting on Liberty Street 
with the yard in the rear, below the line hereinafter mentioned and dividing 

Page 5. John M^ Masters. 

this from the Tavern property. Also at his mothers decease, the farm on the 
hill now occupied by A. Robinson, also all my Hand Street bridge stock to 
have and to hold to him and his heirs forever. 

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Tenth to my brother Joseph during his natural Hfe and the life of his wife 
the house and piece of ground he now occupies agreeably to the Article 
between us and subject to the payment of twenty-five cents a year as hereinto 
mentioned. 

Eleventh of the Thirty-five hundred dollars, coming to me from my 
brother Thomas I bequeathe one thousand dollars to my grand son John Lar- 
rimer son of my daughter Rachel. Also one thousand dollars to my grandson 
John, son of my daughter Nancy. Also one thousand dollars to my grandson 
John, son of my daughter Jane Osborne, and the remaining five hundred 
together with the six shares Exchange Bank stock transferred to me by Mr. 
King,, and two hundred dollars to be paid out of the property by me devised to 
my son Joseph I bequeathe to my grandson John, the son of my daughter 
Eliza Ann King. 

My remaining Exchange Bank stock viz. twenty shares I bequeathe to my 
sons Thomas & Joseph to be equally divided between them. The rest and 
residue of my property real & personal after payment of my debts I devise and 
bequeathe to my beloved wife to dispose of as she pleases. If at my decease 

Page 6. John M'=Masters. 

there is not sufficient money on hands to pay my debts, the rents of my real 
estate excepting that devised to my wife is to be applied until my debts are paid 
out of them before the same go into the hands of the devisees. No advance- 
ments heretofore made or money paid for any of my children, are to be 
accounted for or taken any account of by my executors, and if any dispute 
shall arise respecting this my Will or the devises and bequests therein mentioned, 
between my devisees or Legatees ; It is my Will that each party disputant shall 
choose a man until three five or seven referees are chosen as the parties shall 
require. And the Determination or award of such Referees shall be final and 
conclusive on the parties. And if any party refuse to choose or designate the 
number to be chosen then my executors shall nominate and designate the number 
of referees for such party refusing. 

And as Executors of this my last Will and Testament, I nominate & 
appoint my wife Rachel and my son Thomas, and my sons in law William 
Larrimer Jr and H. D. King. 

And lastly I bequeathe to my wife and all my dear children my blessing and 
commend them to the guardian care of our Heavenly Father, to whom I am thank- 
fial for all his blessing to me through a long life, and especially that all my family 
are inclined to fear & adore Him, and to lead honest and upright lives in this 

Page 7. John M'^Masters. 

present evil world. 

And now on this thirtieth day of March in the year of our Lord one thou- 
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sand eight hundred and forty-seven, I do hereby make ordain and publish as and 
for my last Will and Testament, the foregoing writing comprising eight pages to 
each of which pages I have subscribed my name, and do now sign & seal the 
same in the presence ot 

Samuel Carlisle ) John McMasters [seal] 

Thomas Mellon j 

Page 8. 

Codacil No, one to the forgoing Will & Testament The amount of my 
indebtedness to the heirs of Michael Walls estate, fifteen hundred & fifty, with 
six years interest, also fifteen hundred dollars I paid to Heirs of William Shaw 
Deed, with three years Interest. Also six hundred Dollars I paid to W" 
Morrison with five years interest. Also five Hundred Dollars I paid to John 
Stewart with two years Interest which I do Devise and order that my son John 
shall pay to my Executors as follows First the amount of my indebtedness to 
Michael Walls Heirs in the term of three years from & after my decease. 
Second the amount I paid the Heirs of W"" Shaw, In six years from and after 
my Decease. Third the amount I paid John Stewart & W" Morrison in 
nine years from & after my decease. All the aforesaid payments to be with 
interest. And farther I do desire that my Executors shall pay in July next 
the amount of claim in the hands of Michael Walls Heirs with all interest due 
at that time. 

In witness that the codicil No. one, be a part & parcel of my last Will & 
Testament this fifth day of April one thousand eight hundred & forty-seven I 
have hereunto set my hand & seal in the presenee of the subscribing witnesses. 

John McMasters [seal] 

Duncan Hamilton ) 

Saml E. Shaw j 

Allegheny County ss. Be it known that on the 21 day of April 1847 
personally came before me P. A. Madeira Register for the probate of Wills &c 
in and for said County Saml. Carlile & Thomas Mellon the Subscribing Wit- 
nesses to this will who being by me severally sworn according to law did 
depose and say that they saw John McMasters the Testator to the foregoing 
Will, sign seal & publish & declare the said instrument of writing as and for his 
last Will & Testament, and at the time he did so was of sound and disposing 
mind to the best of their observation and belief, and at his request and in his 
presence subscribed their names as witnesses thereto. 

Given under my hand the above date 

P. A. Madeira Regr. 
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Allegheny County ss. Be it known that on the 21 day of April 1847 
personally came before me P. A. Madeira Register for the probate of Wills &c. 
in and for said county Duncan Hamilton and Sam. E. Shaw the subscribing 
witnesses, to the foregoing Codicil, who being sworn by me according to law, 
did depose and say that they saw and heard John M^^ Masters the foregoing 
Testator sign seal publish and declare the foregoing Codicil as part and parcel 
of his last Will and Testament and at the time he did so he was of sound & 
disposing mind to the best of their observation and belief and at his request and 
in his presence subscribed their names as Witnesses thereto. Given under my 
hand the above date. 

P. A. Madeira, Register. 



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Mill of IRacbel tiuobei? nDcflnaetcra, Hlo. 15 

tn tbe tXame Ot (B0& BmerU I Rachel McMasters of Patton 
Township, County of Allegheny & State of Pennsylvania, widow & relict of 
John McMasters late of Township, County & State aforesaid, being of sound 
and disposing memory and understanding do make and pubHsh this my last 
will and testament as follows, to wit, ist. 

Item : It is my will and desire that my Executors hereinafter named, 
shall pay all my just debts and funeral expenses. 

Item : I give and bequeath unto Rachel K. daughter of James I. Larimer 
the sum of Four hundred and fifty (^450) dollars. 

Item : I give and bequeath unto Rachel H. daughter of John McMasters 
late of Pittsburg, the sum of Four Hundred and fifty (^450) dollars. 

Item : I give and bequeath unto Rachel H. daughter of Gen William 
Larimer the sum of Four Hundred and fifty (^450) dollars. 

Item : I give and bequeath to Rachel daughter of Thomas McMasters 
the sum of Four Hundred and fifty (^450) dollars. 

Item : I give and bequeath unto Annie DufF, daughter of my son in law 
the late Rev. DufF and my daughter Rebecca, the sum of Three hundred and 
fifty (^350) dollars. 

Item : I give and bequeath unto Rachel Carlisle daughter of my daughter 
Rebecca by her second husband, the sum of Four Hundred ($400) Dollars. 

Item : I give and bequeath to Willis L. King son of daughter Eliza, the 
sum of Two Hundred ($200) Dollars. 

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Item : I give and bequeath unto H. K. Larimer son of James I. Larimer, 
I give the sum of Two Hundred ($200) Dollars, 

Item : I give and bequeath unto Joseph son of Wm. Larimer my Hand 
Street Bridge Stock. 

Item : I give and bequeath unto Robert King the sum of Two Hundred 
($200) Dollars. 

Item : I give and bequeath unto the Foreign Missions the sum of Two 
Hundred (^200) Dollars. 

Item : I give and bequeath unto John Duff son of my daughter Rebecca 
my Pittsburg and Connellsville Rail Road Stock. 

Item : I give and bequeath to my son Thomas my Pittsburg & Greens- 
burg Turnpike Road Stock, and Exchange Bank of Pittsburg Stock ; also my 
desk, bookcase. Clock, six volumes of Henry's Commentaries, my large fam- 
ilv Bible, Three volumes of Erskines Sermons and an equal share with the rest 
of my children of my late husbands books. 

Item : I desire that my books in which my name is written shall be 
equally divided among my five daughters. 

Item : I desire that all my household fiirniture shall be equally divided 
among my six children, except what I give unto John and Francis Osborne 
my Grandchildren. 

Item : I will and desire that all the residue and remainder of my estate 
both Real and Personal shall be divided into seven equal shares, which I give 
and bequeath as follows to wit : 

To Caroline, Rachel, David and Leonora McMasters children of my son 
John, late of Pittsburg, One share. 

To John and Francis Osborne children of my daughter Jane, now 
deceased. One share. 

To my daughter Eliza King, One share. 

To my Daughter Rachel Larimer wife of Gen William Larimer, One 
share. 

To my Daughter Nancy, wife of James I. Larimer, One share. 

To my Daughter Rebecca, wife of James Carlisle, One share. 

To my Daughter Mary, wife of B. F. Jones, One share. 

Item : And I hereby authorize my executors hereinafter named to sell or 
convey either at public or private sale all my real estate situate in the City of 
Pittsburg and Village of Turtle Creek at such times and on such terms as may 
seem most advantageous to them, the said Executors, and make Deed or 
Deeds to the purchaser or purchasers of the same. 

Item : I hereby appoint James I, Larimer and my son Thomas McMas- 
ters to be the Executors of this my last will and testament. 
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty 
seventh day of June a.d. One Thousand eight hundred and sixty four. 

Attest : Rachel McMasters. [seal] 

Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of us who in the presence of 
each other have at the request of the testator subscribed our names as 
witnesses hereto. 

John Shaw. 

Joseph Kunkle. 



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ratll of 3obn IHugbei^, Sr. 

Hn tbe name Ot (30t>, Bmen. I John Hughey Senr., of Plumb 
Township Allegheny County takeing into view the uncertainty of life and weak 
in Body But of Sound mind and memory, do make this my last will and testa- 
ment in the manner and form as followes. 

First of all I leave to my two sons John and William the farm I now 
live on Share and Share alike they Complying with the terms hereinafter 
mentioned Viz : that they shall pay to me or to my Heirs I leave to Robert 
Hughey my son fifty Dollars and a feather Bed and Clothes I leave to Joseph 
Hughey the sum of Fifty Dollars to be paid in two years after my decease 
and a Bed and Bedclose I leave to my daughter Rachel my mothers the sum 
of twenty five Dollars to be paid to her in three years after my decease I also 
leave to Jean Chalfent the sum of twenty five dollars to be paid to her in two 
years after my decease I also leave to Elizabeth Lightcap my Daughter the 
sum of fifty dollars to be paid in one year after my decease and I also leave to 
my daughter Ann Chalfent the sum of fifty dollars to be paid to her or to her 
Heirs in two years after my desease with one years Intrest on the above sum 
and the two first mentioned John and William is to furnish me the said John 
Hughey ther Father with Comfortable boarding and lodeging and Durning my 
natural life and at their expence to give me a decent Burial and I do Consti- 
tute and appoint my two sons Robert and Joseph the Exaceter of this my last 
will and testament hereby Revokeing everything in the form of will or Wills 
made theretofore in testimony thereof I have set my hand and seal this- 27 day 
of Sept in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four. 

loHN Hughey [seal] 
done in presence of us the undersigned 

John McMasters Sen. 
John McMasters Jr. 
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State of Pennsylvania, 
Allegheny County. 

I, Fred. W. Edwards, Register of Wills, etc., in and for 

[seal] said County, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a full and 

perfect copy of the Original last Will and Testament of John 

Hughey, Sr., deceased, as the same remains on file, and is of record in my 

office at Pittsburgh, in Will Book, volume 4, page — . 

Witness my hand and seal of said office, this 1st day of August, a.d. 
1902. 



Fred. W. Edwards, 

Register. 



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Inventori^ ant) appraisement of tbe Cetate 
of 3o0epb IKuabe^ 

Hn Unventory 

of the GooJs and Chattels of Joseph Hughey, deceased, taken and aprised 
By us the subscribers this 22 day of October, 1773. 



To one chestnut Gelding 
To one Bay Mair 
To one Sorel Mair 
To one Gray Mair 
To one Brown Horse . 
One Sorrel Stalying Colt 
To one Yok of Oxen . 
To one Red Cow- 
To one Yellow Cow . 
To one SSplakt Cow . 
One Red Heifer 

One Black heifer with white head 
One Red heifer with white head 
One Black heifer with a star . 
One Black heifer with a spreckled face 
One Red Steer . 
Seventeen Sheep 



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Six Young Hogs. 

To one sow and eight pigs 

To wheat in the sheaf . 

To Rie in the Sheaf . 

To Oats and Straw and Indian Foder 

To flax Seed 

To Three young Calves 

To Hay . 

To flax . 

To Corn on Stalk 

To ploughs & Irons & Gears 

To one harrow . 

Two forks for stable & Cutting Steel 

Sundry Edged tools & rings 

A wool wheel 

A woman's Saddle & Bridle 

A mans Sadie 

A mans Sadie 

One Duftailed Chest . 

One papilar Chest 

Bed, bed cloathes & stead 

One Chaff Bed clothes & Stead 

One wool hat 

One pair buck skins 

One light Coulord Shiff" Coat & jacket 

One Brown Cloth Coat & jacket 

One Brown Cloth Shiff" Coat & jacket 

One pair black Velvet Breeches 

To one fly Coat Cleret Colored 

To one set out Coat 

One pair of Boots & one pair pumps 

To sundry Articles Being the plenishing of the Kitchen 

To Sundry Books 

To bags & bed Cloths 

To flour Casks . 

One Apple Mill . 

One Bed and furniture 

One Bed and furniture 

One Case of Drawers 



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To Notes 27 j 








James 


Snodgrass. 





Exhibited into the Register's Office at Lancaster the 25"^ day of October, 
A7ino Domini J 773' 

Ephraim Hughey. 
John Hughey. 
The Exors and appraisers being 
duly sworn according to Law before 
me the same day and Year. 

Edwd. Shippen, 

Recorder. 



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Xan^ Warrant to Josepb IKuci? 

Pennsylvania, ss : 

By the Proprietaries. 

Whereas, "Joseph Huey" of the County of Lancaster 

[seal] hath requested that we would grant him to take up one 

hundred & Fifty Acres of Land adjoining Henry Cowgill & 

Jonathan Smith in Drumore Township in the said County 

of Lancaster for which he agrees to pay to our Use at the rate of Fifteen 

Pounds Ten Shillings, current Money of this Province, for one Hundred Acres 

and the Yearly Quit-Rent of One Half-penny Sterling for every Acre thereof. 

These are, therefore, to authorize and require you to survey or cause to be 

survey' d unto the said "Joseph Huey" at the Place aforesaid, according to the 

Method of Townships appointed, the said Quantity of 1 50 Acres, if not 

already survey' d or appropriated, and make Return thereof into the Secretary's 

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Office, in Order for further Confirmation, for which this shall be your sufficient 
Warrant ; which survey in Case the said Joseph Huey fulfil the above Agree- 
ment, within six Months from the Date hereof, shall be valid, otherwise void. 

Given under my Hand and Seal of the Land-Office, by Virtue of certain 
Powers from the said Proprietaries, at Philadelphia, this third day of October 
Anno Domini ly^l. 

James Hamilton 

To Nicholas Scull, Surveyor General. 



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Mill of 3o0epb IKuGbei? 

Hn tbe IRame of G0^, Hmen. This eight day of September 
Seventeen Hundred and Seventy three, I, Joseph Hughey of Drumore Town- 
ship and County of Lancaster, Being Sick and wake in Body But of a Sound 
desposing Mind and Memory Blessed be God for all his Mercys and Calling to 
Mind that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make this my Last Will 
and Testament in manar and form following first of all I Recommend my Soul 
to God who gave it and my Body I Recommend to the Earth to be Buried in 
a Christian Lick and deasent manner at the discretion of my Executor nothing 
doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall Receive the same again by the 
Mighty Power of God — and as tuching such Worldly Estate wherewith all 
it hath pleased God to Bless me in this Life, I give and depose of the same in 
the following manner and form after all my just Debts and Funeral Charges be 
first paid. Imprimis I Give and bequeath into my well beloved Son Patrick 
Hughey Ten Shillings Pennsylvania Currency to be Paid him in one Year after 
my decease together with my Brown Stuff Coat and Jacket. Item I give and 
bequeath to my well beloved Son Samuel Hughey my Brown Thick Cloth 
Coat and Jeacket and Ten Shillings to be paid as above as also my Surtout Coat. 
Item I give and bequeath to my Son in Law William Irwin my Light colored 
Stuf Coat and Jeacket and Ten Shillings to be paid as Above. Item I give and 
bequeath to my well Beloved Daughter Jean Hughey a Fether Bed and Bed 
Cloaths to the Value of Ten Pound and a Mear or Gelden to the velue of Six- 
teen pounds as also a Sedel and Bridel worth five pound, and Lickways five 
pound in Cash to be Provided and given her in one year after my decease if she 
requires them, Lickways I order that She shall have a further Sum of Ten Pounds 
to be leved out of my Estate and paid her within two years after my decease. 
In case she mereys, but Provided She Remains Single she is not to git it from 

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four years after my Decease and Lickways my case of Drawers I give hur to 
have them Immediately after my decease. Item I give and Bequeath unto my 
Well beloved Wife Jean Hughey hir Bead and Bead Cloathes and all the Plen- 
ishing that is in the Kitchen as also ye Bay Mear and hir own Blew Side Sedel 
and a Bridle and the best Cow that is about the place and my own chist, and 
while Both or either of my Sons that shall be Hereafter named Possess My Real 
Estate She shall have her mear and Cow Cept both winter and sumer as they 
do their own and whenever she Sees Caus She may Move into the upper End 
of the House and they my sd. sons or either of them while they hold and 
poses my Land as Above shall yearly and Every Year Provid and Lay Down 
at the Doar Fier Wood Sofecent to Serve her — Cut fitting for the Chimney of 
sd. Hous and Lickways give her fifteen bushels of grean every year. Viz, Eight 
Bushels of weat and seven of Coarn as also two Barrel of Sider and a Con- 
venient Little garden fenced in for her uce all which yearly Benefits — She is to 
incoy Dewring her Neaturel Life while She Continues my widdow. But if 
my Sons Shall See Caus to Sell and Convey away my said Real Estate She my 
sd. wife shall heave the Sum of Fifty Pounds Paid or Secured to be paid in 
proportion to " geehor" payments arising from the Seal of sd. place yearly as 
the Same Comes deu towards her mentainance. while she Lives if She Con- 
tinues as above and what she leaves of said money aforesaid is to be at her dis- 
posal at hir Death, but if she my sd. wife and these my Sons do live together 
on sd. plantation till the time of hir death, she shall only have Ten pounds at 
hir disposal and in lick manner I order and allow my said wife and my Sons 
Ephraim & John and my Daughter Jean that while they See Caus to live 
together as parent and Children that after providing and maken of there my 
said Sons or nearly aperal as usual that anything that can be done more shall be 
my sd. wifs and daughters property as a Reward of their Industry. Item I 
give and bequeath to my well beloved Son Ephraim Hughey the Gray Mear 
and his Sedel and Bridel and my Leather Briches and my Little wearing Coat 
as also the one half of all my Real and personal Estate to be posesed by him 
his Heirs and Assigns forever after my just Debts and funeral charges together 
with what Legacys and Bequeathments that is already named or shall hereafter 
be named is first deducted of the whole Estate and in Lick mannor I give to 
my Well beloved Son John Hughey his Heirs and Assigns the other half of my 
said Estate Both Real and personal after deductions is maid as above Together 
with my Young Soral Coalt & a Sedel and Bridel and my. Black Cloath 
Britches and do hereby Order that when any of these my said Sons Ephraim 
and John Hughey Shall See Caus to quet their party of the plantation that the 
other is to have it at the valuation of three Indefrant men By them Chosen for 
that purpos or other wayes it shall be put to Seal and the money ariving from 

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the said Seal shall be equally devided Behoten them — and I do Hereby Con- 
stitute make and appoint my Well Beloved Sons Ephraim Hughey and John 
Hughey to Be my whole and Sole Executors of this my last Will and Testa- 
ment & I do hereby Vestuly disalow Revoke and disanul all other Wills 
and testaments By me maid declaring this to be my last Will and Testament in 
Witness w^hereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the Year and day first 
Wretten. 

Joseph Huey [l. s.] 
Signed Published pronounced & 
delivered By the said Joseph Hughey 
as his Last Will in presence of us the 
Subscribers 

James McHullon, 

James Snodgrass, 

Moses Irwin. 

Lancaster County, ss. 

On the twenty-fifth day of October Anno Domini ///J, Before me the 
Subscriber Personally appeared the within named James McHullon and James 
Snodgrass two of the Subscribing Witnesses to the within Will & on their Cor- 
poral Oath according to Law did declare and say that they were present and 
Saw & heard Joseph Huey the Testator within named Sign Seal Publish 
Pronounce & declare the within writing as and for his last Will and Testament 
and that as the doing thereof he was of Sound mind Memory & understanding 
to the best of their knowledge observation and Belief. 

Edward Shippen, 

Register. 



Be it remembered that on the twenty-fifth day of October, Anno Domini 
^773 ^^ Last Will and Testament of Joseph Huey late of Drumore Township 
in the County of Lancaster, yeoman, deceased was proved in due form & Law 
& Letters Testamentary were granted to Ephraim Huey & John Huey the 
Executors therein named, they being first duly Qualified well & Truly to ad- 
minister the Estate of the Testator & to exhibit a true & Perfect Inventory 
thereof into the Register's Office at Lancaster on or before the Twenty fifth 
day of November next to & to Render a true & just Account of their Adminis- 
tration when there to lawfully required. Given under the Seal of the said 
Office. 

Edw' Shippen, Register. 
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XKTliU of (Bcorgc Sbeaf^lei^ 

Hn tbe 5name of (50& Bmen. I George Sheakley of the 
Township of Franklin County of Adams, and State of Pennsylvania being of 
sound disposing mind, memory and understanding do make publish and declare 
the following instrument of writing to be my last will and Testament in 
manner and form following (that is to say) it is my desire that all my just 
debts and flmeral expenses be paid as soon after my decease as conveniently 
may be. 

And I give and bequeath to my two sons William and Robert Sheakley all 
my real estate situate Franklin and Cumberland Townships together with all 
hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, Also all my stock of horses, 
horned cattle, sheep and hogs, to be equally divided between them, share and 
share alike, they paying the different legacies hereinafter specified. 

And first it is my will and desire that my two sons aforesaid pay to my 
beloved wife the sum of twenty pounds yearly and every year during the term 
of her natural life, and it is also my desire that they procure for her a horse 
creature such as she can ride with safety and comfort, also a milch cow, and 
that both the horse and cow be kept by them clear of expense to her. And it 
is further my will that all my household and kitchen fiirniture be equally 
divided the one half of which to go to my wife aforesaid and the other half to 
my two sons. 

2'*'y And I give and bequeath to my wife aforesaid the black servant girl, 
Barbara to be at her disposal and her service during the term of her servitude. 

3'1'y And I give and bequeath to my Daughter Margaret, married to John 
Hamilton, the sum of two hundred pounds, to be paid by my sons aforesaid at 
the end of five years after my decease. 

^thiy J giyg and bequeath to my daughter Ann, married to William 
Larimer the sum of two hundred pounds to be paid by my sons as aforesaid at 
the expiration of six years after my decease. My reason for making this 
disposition is that the circumstances in which the two daughters are placed at 
present is that the oldest can I think better afford to wait a year longer than 
the younger. 

5"''y And to my daughter Nancy I give and bequeath the sum of two 
hundred and fifty pounds to be paid as aforesaid by my two sons at the time 
when she shall have attained her seventeenth year, and if it should so happen 
that she should marry before arriving at that age, then my will is that my sons 
should pay her at the time of her marriage the sum of fifty pounds, either in 
a horse and saddle or milch cows or bed and bedding or in household furniture 

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as she shall desire. But should it so happen that my daughter Nancy should 
decease before her arrival at the age of seventeen years or before her marriage, 
my will then is that her bequeathment should revert to or remain in the hands 
of my sons William and Robert Sheakley. 

And I do hereby request nominate and appoint my son William and my 
friend John Eddie to be the executors of this my last will and testament, 
hereby revoking all other will or wills by me heretofore made. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 
tenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and eleven. 



George Sheakley 



Signed, sealed, published and de- 
clared by the said George Sheakley, the 
testator as and for his last will and testa- 
ment in the presence of us who at his 
request and in his presence and in the 
presence of each other have hereunto 
subscribed our names as witnesses. 

Adam Black 
John Stoner 
Moses Jenkins 



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Mill of IRobcrt flncCur^1? 

Hn tbe Iflame of (500 Bmen ; I, Robert McCurdy of Cum- 
berland township, in the County of Adams, and State of Pennsylvania, being 
sick in body but of sound and Desposing mind and memory Blessed be God 
for his mercies. Do make this my last will and Testament in manner following, 
to wit — 

Imprimus — It is my will that all my just debts and funeral expenses be 
first paid. 

Item. I give and devise to my son William McCurdy all my personal 
estate except what shall be hereafter e^icepted. 

Item. I give and devise to my son William and to his heirs and assigns 
forever one hundred and ninety three acres, neat measure, to be taken oiF that 

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part of the Plantation on which I now live, which adjoins Robert Work and 
David Horner including the dwelling house and the buildings adjoint. 

Item. I give and devise to my son Robert McCurdy and to his heirs 
and assigns forever one hundred and thirteen acres, neat measure, to be taken 
from the said plantation, that part which adjoins Robert Thompson to John 
Kissinger he paying to my daughter Nancy Paxton fifty pounds in three years 
after my decease. 

I also give and devise to my said son Robert, one feather Bed and furni- 
ture, I also give and devise to my said son Robert one milch cow. 

Item : — I give and devise to my son James McCurdy and to his heirs and 
assigns forever all the rest and residue of my said Plantation on which I now 
live at his age of twenty one years ; until which the use and possession of his 
share shall be in my aforesaid son William, also a horse and saddle and Milch 
Cow at his age of twenty one aforesaid also a bed and bedding. 

Item. I give and devise to my daughter Margaret intermarried with 
George Shekley the sum of one hundred pounds to be paid in three years after 
my decease. 

Item. I give and devise to my daughter Nancy Paxton, the sum of one 
hundred and fifty pounds to be paid her in three years after my decease. Also 
a Milch Cow. 

Item. I give and devise to my daughter Martha intermarried with Samuel 
Taggart the sum of one hundred and twenty five pounds to be paid her in one 
year after my decease. 

Item. I give and devise to my daughter Mary intermarried with Robert 
Thompson the sum of one hundred pounds to be paid her in three years after 
my decease. 

Item. It is my will and I hereby direct that all the aforesaid debts and 
legacies shall be paid and Given by my son William McCurdy except the 
sum of fifty pounds above mentioned which is to be paid to my son 
Robert. 

Item. It is my will and I direct that my daughter Nancy have the privi- 
ledge of living in the mansion house for six years after my decease and that my 
son William shall during that term provide her with a horse when neces- 
sary. 

Item. It is my will that my grand-son Robert McCurdy Paxton have 
the priveledge of living in my mansion house aforesaid for the term of three 
years after my decease and that during that term he shall be supported by my 
said son William and lastly I hereby constitute and appoint my two sons 
William McCurdy and Robert McCurdy as executors of this my last Will 
and Testament hereby Revoking all former wills by me made. In witness 

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where of I have here unto set my hand and affixed my Seal the fifth day of 
August Anno Domini, Eighteen hundred and five. 

Robert McCurdy [seal] 
Signed sealed pronounced and pub- 
lished in the presence of us at the 
request of the Testator. 

Robert Hayes 
David Horner 
Robert Major 
Adams County ss. 

Before James Duncan Esq. Register of Wills for the probate of Wills and 
granting letters of administration in the State of Pennsylvania Personally came 
David Horner and Robert Major two of the subscribing witnesses to the fore- 
going instrument of writing and on their solemn Oath and affirmation and sev- 
erally say that they were personally present and saw and heard the therein 
named Robert McCurdy sign his name unto and seal and publish the forgoing 
Instrument of Writing as and for his last will and Testament and at the time of 
doing thereof he the said Robert McCurdy was of a sound and disposing mind 
memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge and belief, and that 
they subscribe thereto as Witnesses in the presence of the said Testator and at 
his request and also in the presence of each other at the same time. 

David Horner 
Robert Major 
Sworn affirmed and Subscribed to before me at Gettysburg the 25*^ day 
of May a.d. I 8 10. 

James Duncan Jr. 
Adams Co. 171 the State of Pennsylvania. 

I James Duncan Esq. Register for the probate of wills and granting letters 
of administration in and for the said County of Adams, Do Certify the fore- 
going to be a true copy taken from and compared with the original remaining 
in the Register's office at Gettysburg in Testimony where of I have set my 
hand and affixed the seal of the said office at Gettysburg the 28''* day of May 
A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirteen. 

James Duncan 

Register [seal] 



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Pennsylvania, 



Xant) "CClarrant to IRobert iRiitG 



By the Proprietaries. 



[seal] 



Whereas, *' Robert King" of the County ot' Lancaster 
hath requested that we would grant him to take up one 
hundred and thirty Acres of Land adjoining James Siddell 
and James Bradley in Little Britain Township in the said 
County of Lancaster for which he agrees to pay to our Use at the rate of 
Fifteen Pounds Ten Shillings, current Money of this Province, for one Hun- 
dred Acres and the Yearly Quit- Rent of One Half-penny Sterling for every 
Acre thereof. 

These are, therefore, to authorize and require you to survey or cause to be 
survey' d unto the said Robert King at the Place aforesaid, according to the 
Method of Townships appointed, the said Quantity of 130 Acres, if not 
already survey'd or appropriated, and make return thereof into the Secretary's 
Office, in Order for further Confirmation, for which this shall be your sufficient 
Warrant ; which survey in Case the said Robert King fulfil the above Agree- 
ment, within six Months from the Date hereof, shall be valid, otherwise void. 
Given under my Hand and Seal of the Land-Office, by Virtue of certain 
Powers from the said Proprietaries, at Philadelphia, this First day of De- 
cember Jnno Domini lyjo. 

James Hamilton. 
To Nicholas Scull, Surveyor General. 

In Testimony, That the above is a copy of the original remaining on file 
in the Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania, I have hereunto set my 
hand and caused the seal of said Department to be affixed 
at Harrisburg, this eighth day of April, a.d. 1901. 
Isaac B. Brown, 
Deputy Secretary of Internal Affairs. 

[revenue stamp] 



[seal] 



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Unventor^ ant> Bppraisement of tbe Bstate ot 
IRobert IRing 

A just and perfect Inventory of all and Singular the goods and chattels. 
Rights & Credits, belonging to Robert King of Little Britain Township. 



& a young steer 



Saddle 



To Land and Improvements 

To one Black Cow 

To one Red Cow 

To one Black Cow 

To one Spotted Cow 

To one Brown Cow 

To one Spotted Heifer 

To two young Heifers 

To one Beef Cow 

To William's Horse & 

To one Bay Mare 

To one White Horse 

To one Chestnut Mare 

To one Sorel Horse 

To one Black Horse 

To fifteen Sheep 

To five Hogs 

To Wheat in the Sheaf 

To Rye in the Sheaf 

To oats in the Sheaf 

To Hay . 

To flax Seed 

To Flax . 

To corn in the Ear 

To Indian foder . 

To Iron Utensils for Husbandry 

To Carpenter's Tools . 

To one plow & plow Irons . 

To another plow & plow Irons 

To one Harrow . 

To Iron Hangings for Plow 

To a Grindstone 

To a Plush Side Sadie . 



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2 


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2 


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2 


10 




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13 






5 






i6 


10 





8 








6 


10 





5 


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I 


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2 


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5 


10 








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4 


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10 










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To a Blue Cloth Side Sadie 2 







To an old Sadie . 















To a cupboard . 












6 


To Two Bridles . 
















To a Fox Trap . 















To a Chest of Drawers 








I 


15 





To two Frying pans 












6 


To a Grid Iron . 












6 


To a Big Wheel . 















To a chest 










12 





To a black Reel . 















To a Keag 












6 


To a pot .... 















To a Pot & pot Hooks . 















To a pot & pot Hook . 















To a Gridle and Skillet 















To Pot Backs . 















To Fire Shovel & Tongs 












6 


To Pewter 








I 







To Wooden Vessels for Kitchen use 












6 


To a Table 















To a Gun .... 










10 





A case of Drawers 








2 


10 





A Desk .... 








3 








Another Desk 








3 








A case of Drawers 








3 


10 




To^Weckles". 










3 





A Wheel .... 










2 


6 


A Chair .... 










5 





A Dough Trough 










2 





Bed & Bed Cloathes . 








3 


7 


6 


To Bed & Bed Cloathes 








I 


10 





A Bed & Bed Cloathes 








I 








A Bed & Bed Cloathes 








6 


12 





A Feather Bed & furniture 








10 








Four bed Steads .... 








I 








Sider barrels .... 











12 





To pair of Stilyards 











10 





Bells 










4 






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Half bushels & Churns 







Bee Hives . 










14 





Bridles .... 












6 


A Blue Coat, jacket & Drawers 















A Brown Coat & two jackets 















A Great Coat . 














A Blanket .... 












6 


A pair of old gold sleeve buttons 











15 





Tobacco Box and Knife 















To B^gs .... 











15 





A Servant Lad's Time . 








17 


10 





ATub . 










I 


6 


A Bond of 50 L.s due May 1st, 1764 






5° 








A Bond of 50 L.s due May ist, 1765 






50 








A Bond of 50 L.s due May ist, 1766 






50 








" " " " " " " " 1767 






50 








To Bond of 35 L.s due May i, 1768 






35 








To a note due September i, 1764 . 






3 








To part of a note 






I 


9 


3 


To Debts Due by Book 






20 


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To Cash .... 








10 


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Appraised by us the 31st day of October, 1763. 

William Ritchey, Junior. 
Alex'dr. Duncan. 



"mwi of 3amc0 nDc(^ur^1? 

Hn tbe THame of (50& Bmen. I James McCurdy, of Salisbury 
township County of Lancaster, and Province, of Pennsylvania, Yeoman : 
Being sick weak in body ; but of perfect mind and memory. Thanks be to 
God, calling to mind the mortality of the body, and knowing it is appointed 
for all men once to Die, Do make and ordain this my last will and Testa- 
ment. That is to say first of all : I give and recommend my soul into the 
hands, of the Almighty God, who gave it, and my body, I recommend to 
the Earth, to be burried in a decent Christian Buryal, at the discretion of my 
Executor. And as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased 

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God to Bless me with ; I give devise and dispose of the same in the follow- 
ing maner, and form ; First, — I order my just debts ; and funeral expenses 
be paid 

Secondly, — I give and bequeath to Archibald McCurdy, my well be- 
loved son, all my estate, real and personal, lying and being in the township 
aforsaid ; He paying the several legacies, hereafter Bequeathed to the rest of 
my children. All of which estate I now dwell on with all appurtances, I 
give bequeath to my said son Archibald his Heirs and Assigns forever ; 

Thirdly, — I give and bequeath to my well beloved son, Robert McCurdy, 
the sum of twenty, shillings, to be paid by my son Archibald McCurdy. 

Forthly, — I give and bequeath to my well beloved son Hugh McCurdy, 
the sum of one Hundred and Fifty pounds, to be paid him by my son Archi- 
bald out of my estate, in manner form following. That is to say Fifty pounds 
in two years after my decease, until the whole be paid. Fifthly, — I give and 
bequeath to well beloved son James McCurdy, the sum of three Hundred 
pounds, to be paid him out of my estate, by my son Archibald immediately 
after my Decease, with lawful intrest for the same, since my son James 
setteld on the tract of land he now lives on in Cumberland County. 

Lastly ; I constitute make ordain my well beloved son Archibald Mc- 
Curdy, the sole executor of this my last Will and Testament, and all singular 
my lands messuages and Tenements by him freely possessed to be enjoyed 
liable to the encumberances before said. And I do utterly disallow revoke, and 
disannul all and every other Testament, will's bequests and executions, by me 
in any way before named willd bequeathed ; Ratifying and confirming this 
and no other to be my last will and Testament ; In witness whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and seal this 5 th day of March one thousand seven 
Hundred and seventy (1770). 



Signed sealed published and declared 
by the said James McCurdy as his last 
will and Testament, In the presence of 



James McCurdy. [seal] 



Robert Armor. 
Robert McNeil. 
James Clemson. 
[Will probated zd May 1770.] 



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mm of iRobcrt mm 

Hn tbe Ulame of (30D, Bmen. I, Robert King of the Town- 
ship of Little Britain, in the County of Lancaster and Province of Pennsyl- 
vania, Yeoman, being mindful of my mortality, do make this my last Will and 
Testament in manner following, that is to say, I order my body to be buried 
in a christian and decent manner, at the Discretion of my Executrix and 
Executor herein after named, and as for such worldly estate wherewith it hath 
pleased God to Bless me in this Life, I give and dispose of the same in the 
following manner and form, viz. : 

Imprimis I order, that all my just debts and funeral charges be first fully 
paid ; Item I order and it is my will that my Wife Ann, if she continues a 
widow and my son William shall possess and hold in Common my Plantation 
and Tract of Land whereon I now dwell, situate in Little Britain Township 
for the term of three years from my decease and for the Term of six years if 
they both shall agree so to do, after and to commence from my decease my 
other children Dwelling and being cloathed and maintained out of the same as 
if in my Life time except Susannah and John. Item I give unto my dearly 
beloved Wife Ann the sum of Ten pounds Lawful money of the said Province 
and my best bed and furniture for the same to hold the same During her 
widowhood and no Longer, and if she should happen to marry then the said 
Bed and furniture and all other gifts herein after and before mentioned shall 
Revert and be Returned to my other executor my Son William to be divided 
amongst my other children and my said Son William in like manner as is here- 
inafter directed. Item I give unto my daughter Susannah the wife of John 
Conningham, the Sum of Seven Shillings and six pence. Lawful money of 
Pennsylvania in full for their share of my Estate. Item I give unto my Grand 
Children Robert and Elizabeth, the children of John Conningham and Susan- 
nah his wife, the Sum of One Pound ten Shillings each of them to be paid 
them when they arrive at the Age or Day of Marriage which shall first hap- 
pen, by my Executrix and Executor hereinafter named. Item, I give unto 
my son William King, the sum of Twenty Pounds his Horse, Bridle and Sad- 
dle. I give unto my son John King the sum of Five pounds as his/]/// share 
of my Estate. Item, I order that my Executrix and Executor make sale by- 
way of Publick Vendue of all my Goods and Chattels as soon as they may see 
convenient after my decease, and my Land at the end of the said three or Six 
years afores'd, and after paying the Legacys aforesaid I order that the money 
arising from the said Sales as well as all other my Estate that the same be 
equally Divided shere and shere alike amongst and between my said Wife if 

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C) 



es I lie Bcxly 
[■ Robert King,who 
xliecl June 22cl. iy6'3. 
Aaed.38 Ycxrs. 




TclMBSTONE OF RdlSK-RT KlNf; 

In Mcirrisuirs (jr.i\ eyard, Ci-ntreville, Lancaster County, a quartt-r ot an acre in area, 
witli beautiful locust-trees surrounding it 

This stone was found broken at the Ijase and 
lying flat. We raised it for the purpose of 
piioiographins, and stood it at the head of 



mine 



she continue a Widow and my Son Williamy my daughter Mary, My son 
Robert, My Daughter A7171, My Son James, My Daughter Elizabeth and 
Rachel, and my Son George to be paid them by my Executrix and Executor 
as they Respectively attain to age, or Day of Marriage which shall first hap- 
pen. But provided nevertheless that if my said Wife Ann shall continue my 
Widow and any or either of my" sd. children should Dye before they attain to 
Age or should happen to marry before at Age without the Free Consent and 
approbation of my said Wife then and in such case I order that the Portion 
and share of such Child or Children So Dyeing or Marryeing as aforesaid shall 
be divided equally amongst the Remainer or my Surviving Children who has 
or shall have obtained their said Mother's Consent and Approbation of their 
Marriage afores'd. And I empower my Executrix or Executor to Convey 
my land aforesaid to the Purchaser thereof, their Heirs and assigns forever 
subject to the Payment of the Purchase Money and Quit rents due to the Lord 
of the Fee. And I do hereby nominate and appoint my loving Wife Ann and 
my Son William King to be sole Executrix and Executor of this my last Will 
and Testament, Ratifying this and no other to be my last Will and Testament. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Tenth Day of 
May, 1763. 

Robert King, [seal] 

Signed, Sealed, Published, pronounced and declared by ye sd. Robert 
King ye testator, as his Last Will and Testament in the Presence of Mary 
Saunders, Sam. Steel, Isaac Saunders. 

Lancaster County, ss. 

On the Third Day of November Anno Domini 176J, Before me the Sub- 
scriber, personally appeared Samuel Steel, Isaac Saunders Esquire, two of the 
Subscribing Witnesses to the within Will, and on their Solemn Affirmation, 
according to Law, did declare and say that they were present and saw and 
heard Robert King the Testator within named. Sign, Seal, Publish, pronounce 
and declare the within Writing as and for the Last Will and Testament and 
that at the doing thereof he was of Sound and Well disposing mind, memory 
and understanding to the best of their Knowledge and Belief. 

Edw. Shippen, D. R. 

Be it remembered that on the third Day of November Anno Domini 176J 
The Last Will and Testament o^ Robert King Late of Little Britain Tozanship 
in the County of Lancaster, yeoman, deceased, was proved in the form of Law 
and Letters Testamentary thereon were granted to Ann King and William 

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Ki?ig the Executors therein named they being first duly Qualified well and 
truly to Administer the Estate of the said decedent, and to Exhibit a true and 
Perfect Inventory thereof with the Register's Office at Lancaster on or before 
the third Day of December next and to tender a true and just account of their 
Administration on the said Estate when thereto Lawfully required. Given 
under the Seal of the said Office 

By me Edward Shippen, D. R. 

Abstract of a deed, showing disposition of land of Robert King, Sr. : 

This tract of land of which Robert King was first possessed, was a Pro- 
prietory Warrant surveyed to Robert King, Dec. ist, 1750. 

William King of Township of Little Britain, County of Lancaster, son ot 
Robert King of same, as executor on 2nd day of April, 1802, and Isabella his 
wife, sells to John Pyle, yeoman, for Four hundred pounds in gold and silver 
coin, all that Messuage or Tennement and tract of Land, situate lying and 
being in the Township of Little Britain, County and State aforesaid, contain- 
ing 157 acres and three quarters and allowance, be the same more or less, 
which said described Tract of Land was surveyed to Robert King in pursuance 
of a Proprietory Warrant dated Dec. the first, one thousand seven hundred 
and fifty, and said Robert did by his last Will and Testament dated tenth 
day of May, 1763, and entered in the Register's office November the third, 
1763, did order that his said land should be sold by his Executors at Publick 
Vendue, at which publick sale the aforesaid William King did Purchase for a 
valuable consideration as in and by said Warrant last will and Vendue List 
appears. 

[This deed was executed in presence of Robert King and James McSparran, 
by William King and Isabella his wife.] 



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Mill of Mtlliain Creiabton 

%n tbe IFlame Ot (50^ Bmen, November the loth one thousand 
Seven hundred and ninety I William Creighton of Leacock Township, Lan- 
caster County and State of Pennsylvania Yeoman being in a sick and weak 
condition but of perfect mind and memory calling to mind that it is appointed 
for all men once to die, do hereby make and ordain this my last will and testa- 
ment in manner and form following that is to say I do in the first place recom- 
mend my Soul to God who gave it to me and my body to the dust to be 
buried in a decent manner at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting 
of a resurrection from the dead at the last day by the Almighty power of God 
and with respect to the good things of this World wherewith it has pleased 
God to endow me, I do hereby dispose of them in the following manner Viz 
First it is my will that my fianeral charges, and all my other debts be duly dis- 
charged. Secondly I give and bequeath to my well beloved wife Barbara the 
full sum of one hundred and fifty Pounds, her Bed and Bed Clothes together 
with as much of the house and kitchen furniture as she may stand in need of 

Item, I give and bequeath to my well beloved daughter Mary her thirds 
of the House and lot in New Holland which I has the right of and Six 
pounds a year, yearly and every year to be paid to her by my Grand Son Isaac 
during her Natural life for which he is to give Bond and security to her, but 
in case that Henry Skiles should by Law or any other means obtain any part 
thereof it is my will that it be paid to her children. Item I give and bequeath 
to my well beloved Grand Son Isaac Litner three hundred and Fifty pounds to 
be paid to him when he arrives to the flill age of Twenty one years together 
with my Watch, Stock buckle and Knee Buckles, Item I give and bequeath to 
my well beloved daughter Martha the fiall sum of Two hundred pounds to be 
paid to her at the Expiration of Two years after my decease. Item I give and 
bequeath to my well beloved daughter Margaret the full sum of fifty pounds to 
be paid to her at the expiration of two years after my decease. Item, I give 
and bequeath to my grand children William, Samuel and Margaret Erwin the 
full sum of fifty pounds each to be paid to them when the arrive to the full age 
of Twenty one Years, Item I give and bequeath to my Grand daughter Mary 
An Skiles one Cow, 

Item It is my will that the grain now in the Barn together with the Crop 
now in the ground be equally divided between my beloved Wife and my 
Grand Son Isaac Litner before mentioned. Item It is my will that my Plan- 
tation on which I now live together with my Personal Estate be sold by my 
Executor as soon as convenient after my decease in order to pay the above 

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bequests, and if any overplush should arise from the sales thereof it is my will 
that it be equally divided between my well beloved Wife and my daughters 
Ann Martha and Margaret and my Grand Son Isaac Litner. 

Item, I will and bequeath to my well beloved daughter Ann the flill sum 
of two hundred pounds to be paid in one year after my decease, to be paid out 
of the money that may arise from the sales aforesaid, and I do nominate and 
appoint Robert McCurdy and William Brisben Executors of this my last Will 
and testament, disavowing, disannulling and rendring Void hereby Will or 
Wills testament or testaments by me heretofore made, 

William Creighton [seal] 
Signed sealed pronounced, published and declared the day and year above 
written in presence of 

George McIlvaine 
James Hamilton Jun" 
State of Pennsylvania, 
County of Lancaster, 

I certify the foregoing to be a true and correct copy 
[seal] of the original Will of William Creighton, deceased, duly 

proven on November 20, 1790, and remaining filed on 
record in the Register's Office of Lancaster County. 

Witness my hand and seal of office, June 25, 1902. 

J. F. Stam, 



Register. 




Hbbenba 



Hbbenba 



[The writer has enough data from France, England, Ireland, and Scotland of the Larimiers, 
Lorimiers, Lorimers, O'Heoghys, and Hugheys, to fill a volume. The History of the Ancient 
O'Heoghy dates back years before Christ, in Ireland. The writer only knows that her ancestor, 
Larimer, came from Alsace, France, and that the Hugheys came from the north of Ireland. 
The antiquity of both the names, Larimer and Hughey, is certainly, beyond doubt, very great. 
The following are short extracts from data translated, possibly for the first time in this country, 
from very old French works. A few notes have been left in the original. The Arms, " He 
de France," were the armorial bearings of d'Antoine Charles Lorimier, of Paris, and of Lord 
William de Lorimier, of Montreal, Canada.] 



Ube Xorimer 6uU0 

Lorimer (French Lormier, from Latin lor urn, a thong), a maker of" bits, 
spurs, stirrup-irons, metal mountings for saddles and bridles, and generally of 
all articles of horse furniture. 

In London, the lorimers, who had previously formed part of another guild, 
were incorporated by letters patent in 1 7 1 2 ; in the Scottish burghs they have 
been comprehended as a branch of the corporation of hammermen. Cutlers, 
locksmiths, and brass-founders have been considered as in the exercise of 
branches of the lorimer art, and therefore bound to enter with the corporation. 

The court of session in 1830 held it to be a violation of the exclusive 
privileges of the lorimer craft to manufacture bits, stirrup-irons, and other me- 
tallic articles of horse furniture, with a view to silver-plating them before 
selling. (International Cyclopaedia.) 



Xorimers ot Scotland 

DuRAND Lorimer, of Caen, France, witness to a charter in favor of the 
Abbot and Convent of St. Etienne, a.d. 1080, must have gone to Scotland 
during the time of, or with, William the Conqueror, from Normandy, France. 

GoscELiNUS LoREMARius held lands in county Essex at the time of the 
Domesday Survey. 

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William the Lion, i 165-12 14, granted lands near Perth to Hugh Lori- 

MER and his heirs for services performed. 
Matthew Lorimer sold these lands to William de Len, burgess of Perth, 

by whom they were gifted to the Abbey of Scone. 

John Lorimer, clerk, in 1245, released in favor Baldwin Lorimer, 

of the Abbot of Scone any claim he might c. 1228. 

have to these lands. 
John Lorimer, in 1375, sold a house and tenement of land in the Curfew 
Road, Perth. 

Alexander Lorimer, in 1494, possessed a tenement in Perth, near the 
Carmelite Monastery. 

Katherine Lorimer was a nun at Elcho in 1539. 

(Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, vol. ii., N. S., p. 421. London.) 



x:;be Muouenot Xorinters 

Registers of the French Conformed Churches of St. Patrick and St. 
Mary, Dublin, Ireland. Huguenot Society of London Publications. 
Compiled by E. Maynicke Stillman. 

Registre des Baptemes en I'Eglise Fran^oise, Threadneedle Street, London. 
Huguenot Society of London Publications. 

Judie Bultine, fille de Jaque B., et d'Ane, sa femme. Tern, (sponsors) 
Gilame Gillion, Marie, femme de Jan La Rinnemer, April 17 (1600- 
1639). (Vol. IX.) 

Jaques Lormier, fils de Anthoine L. et Marie Royfay, sa femme. 
Tem. Jantien Maria, et Marie le Conte, femme de Jacob le Nin, Sept. 26 
(1637-1685). (Vol. XIII.) 

Registers of Walloons' Church, Norwich, England (i 565-1882). Hu- 
guenot Society of London Publications, vol. i. 

Anne Lornier (should be Lormier) fille de Jaques Lormier. Tem. 
Jaques Pion et Marie Mounie, 25 Mars, 1694. 

Catherine Lormier, fille de Jaques Lormiers. Tem. Jean de Clevier, 
la vefoe de la Haiete (?), i Mars, 1695-96. 

Jaques Lormier, fils de Jaques Lormier. Tem. Jaques Lormier son 
pere (du dit Jaques le pere), la fe'me de Gastin Martino, i Oct., 1699. 

Ester Lormier, fille de Jaques Lormier. Tem. Lucas Decau, Ester le 
Mounier, 25 Avril, 1708. 

FRAN901SE Lormier, fille de Jaques Lormier. L'cnfant a este nommee 
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Fran^oise par Monsr. Baldy, ministre. Tern. Tho. Delahayze, Fran^oise Ic 
Mounier, 4 Juin, 17 10. 

The following is from Agnew's ** French Protestant Exiles :" 
" On the i8th of June, 1695, in St. Patrick's, Dublin, Monsieur Honorat 
de Bernarddou, capitaine, to D'lle Marguerite de Najac de Genestre. (Wit- 
nesses : Ch. de Vignoles, J. Sperandieu de Vignoles, M. David de Poey, 

M. DE LA RaMIERE.)" (Vol. II., I886.) 

" Another false allegation was, that after the revocation of the Edict of 
Nantes, persecution had ceased. M. Reneu refers to the refugees by name, 
who can tell Papists and others a very different and true tale : 

" Let them inquire of Mrs. Charlotte and Mary, daughters of the 
SiEUR DE LA Ramiere, who died in the service of England, they will tell 
them that his castle was pulled down and his woods destroyed, because he held 
there a religious assembly." (Vol. II., 1886.) 

Most of the Huguenot refugees who settled in Great Britain and Ireland 
came there during the reign of Louis XIV., but some of them came before 
that time. The older refugees were not only from France proper, but also 
from the regions then designated the "Low Countries," but now known as 
Holland and Belgium. Part of Belgium was then known as " French Flan- 
ders," because under French rule, and the inhabitants thereof were, on account 
of the old French dialect which they spoke, called Walloons. 

Letters of Denization and Acts of Naturalization for Aliens in England 
were granted from 1509 to 1603, according to Huguenot Society of London 
Publications. O'Hart, in his "Irish Pedigrees," 1887, among his lists of 
Huguenot families who settled in Great Britain and Ireland, is one that gives 
the names of those who were naturalized from 1 681 to 171 2. It should be 
observed that the naturalization of a Huguenot refugee is not necessarily the 
same, or even almost the same, as the date of his arrival on British soil. 

These lists, by the way, O'Hart has taken from Agnew's " French Prot- 
estant Exiles." In this list of 1 681-17 12, the Lormier, Larimiere, la 
Rimiere families are shown to have been naturalized by Letters Patent in Great 
Britain and Ireland. This was in the reign of King Charles II., and ending 
in the reign of Queen Anne. But in the reign of William and Mary, the 
largest number of foreign refugees were naturalized in these countries from 
1689 to July 3, 1 70 1. In Queen Anne's time we do not find any long list 
of "naturalized foreign Protestants," because during the prosecution by Eng- 
land of the war with France they were recognized as British subjects. At 
length, however, on March 23, 1709, an Act was passed for their naturaliza- 
tion, but on February 9, 171 2, that Act was repealed. 

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In England the refugee might obtain his naturalization certificate on taking 
the oaths prescribed for that purpose, in the Court of Queen's Bench, or in 
the Court of Common Pleas, or in the Court of Exchequer ; but in Ireland, 
on taking the prescribed oaths before the Lord Chancellor, the refugee imme- 
diately obtained his certificate of naturalization. 

There was a reluctance on the part of England, prior to this time, to pass 
a general Act of Parliament for the naturalization of Protestant strangers. 
Charles II. undertook to suggest the step to Parliament in i68l, but legislators 
were deaf to the hint for a quarter of a century. And so naturalization had 
to be doled out to individuals by Letters Patent from the king, and by private 
Acts of Parhament. 




H)e Xorimier ot CanaOa 

I. William de Lorimier, Esquire (first settler), Capitaine, Lord des 
Bardes (in the Canadian records it is also spelled Bordes ; if the former spell- 
ing be correct, it means that he was Lord oi the Armour of Horses), was 
Commandant of Fort Rolland in 1705. He was the son of William de 
Lorimier and Jane (Guilboult) de Lorimier, of St. Leu and St. Gilles, in 
the Diocese of Paris. He was buried the 29th of July, 1709, in Montreal. 

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He married, on lanuary 27, 1695, at Champlain, Marguerite Chorel, who 
was baptized in 1666, and buried at Montreal the 28th of March, 1736 ; 
she was the daughter of Francis Chorel. 

LoRiMiER, Captain of the Troops, Commandant of the post of Lac- 

des-Deux-Montagnes. He married Louise La Ferte, and had : 

John-Claude Lorimier, baptized the 28th of December, 1751, at Lac- 
des-Deux-Montagnes. 

Laurent Lorimier, baptized in 1644, was drowned the 29th of Septem- 
ber, and buried the 1 6th of December, at Lachine. 

(Compiled from the records of L'Abbe Cyprien Tanquay, in «' Les 
Families Canadiennes.") 

Xarremar ot france 

Paul-Jaques de Chambre, Esquire, Counsellor to the King, Lieutenant- 
General of the Criminal Court at its sessions at Tartas, was born the 2 1st of 
September, 17 11. (Extract from Baptistry delivered in form.) He served 
from the first in the Guards of the King, and married, according to original 
articles signed privately, the 27th of June, 1735, to D'lle Claire Larremar, 
daughter of Monsieur Barthelemi Larremar, Barrister in Parliament, and of 
D'lle Marie-Amande de Bedora, and the issue of this marriage were seven 
children : 

1. Jean- Alexandre de Chambre, Esquire, born the 8th of December, 

1739, Lieutenant in the Regiment of Balfunce. 

2. Louis-Marie de Chambre, Esquire, born the 15th of August, 1742. 

3. Jean de Chambre, Esquire, born the 7th of April, 1744. 

4. Bertrand de Chambre, Esquire, born the 12th of September, 1745. 

5. Pierre- Fran9oise de Chambre, Esquire, born the 27th of May, 1750. 

6. Cecille de Chambre, born the 19th of August, 1738. 

7. Therese- Elizabeth de Chambre, born the 5th of February, 1741. 
Examined and verified by Us, Knight, Counsellor to the King in his 

Councils, Judge of the Arms of France. 

(Signed) D'Hozier. 

(General Armory of France, vol. v. p. 264.) 

Antoine Charles Lorimier, of He de France (Paris and Environs), 
Master of the Chamber of Exchequer, Intendant and Comptroller General of 
the Stables and Liveries to His Majesty Louis XIV. (the mother's name was 
Marie-Louise Boucher), and his eldest daughter Elizabeth, Countess de Braque, 
and Marquise de Ruffey, lived at the time of the most stirring events in the 

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history of France, the former a courtier at the gay and luxurious court of Louis 
XIV., the Grand Monarch, during the later years of his reign, and in the atmos- 
phere of which his family was reared. Then, after the death of Louis XIV., the 
government was conducted by his kinsman, Philip of Orleans, as regent, during 
the minority of the king's great-grandson, Louis XV. Philip of Orleans was 
an unprincipled man ; he resorted to the most iniquitous measures to discharge 
the immense national debt. The coinage was debased ; many claims were 
cancelled ; creditors thrown into prison and compelled to pay heavily for their 
release. The state appeared to be on the brink of ruin, when John Law, a 
Scotch financier and adventurer, proposed to relieve the public distress by 
issuing, a paper currency, having as the basis of the credit certain monopolies 
of trade and the yield of imaginary mines in Louisiana, then a vast territory 
owned by France in the New World on the Mississippi River. 

Law's scheme, known as the Mississippi Bubble, was eagerly adopted by 
the Regent, and the deluded people, with feverish excitement, speculated in 
Mississippi shares. Crowds were attracted to Paris, and clerks could scarcely 
be found in sufficient numbers to transact the company's business. But a few 
months sufficed to prick the bubble. A crash came, thousands were ruined, 
and the country received a shock from which it did not recover for years. 

The Ancient History and Genealogy of the O'Heoghy Family, 
MoNARCHS OF Ireland, AND KiNGS AND Princes OF Ulidia. Lineal 
Descendants of Milesius, King of Spain, through the Line of Heremon, 
his Son, First Milesian Monarch of Ireland. Including a Brief Mention 
of the English Invasion of Ireland, in 117 7, by De Courcy, and some 
of the Names of his Anglo-Norman Followers who usurped the Posses- 
sions of the O'Heoghy Family, in Lecale, county Down, and in other 
Parts of Ulster. Compiled by E. Maynicke Stillman. 

THE STEM OF THE LINE OF HEREMON, FROM MILESIUS OF SPAIN. 

I. Milesius. 

i , 

I \ I 

2. Heber Fionn. 2. Ir. 2. Heremon. 

Heber Fionn and Heremon were the first Milesian monarchs of Ireland. 
They reigned conjointly one year, when Heber was slain by Heremon, before 
Christ, 1698. 

Heremon was the seventh son of Milesius, King of Spain, but the third 
of the three sons who left any issue. From him were descended the kings, 
nobility, and gentry of the kingdoms of Connaught, of Dalriada, Leinster, 

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Meath, Orgiall, Ossory ; of Scotland, since the fifth century ; of Ulster, since 
the fourth century ; and of England, from the reign of King Henry II. down 
to the present time. 

♦'The House of Heremon," writes O'Callaghan, "from the number of 
its Princes, or great families, from the multitude of distinguished characters, as 
laymen or churchmen, and from the extensive territories acquired by those 
belonging to it, at home and abroad, or in Alba as well as in Ireland, was re- 
garded as by far the most illustrious ; so much so, according to the best native 
authority, that it would be as reasonable to affirm that one pound is equal in 
value to one hundred pounds as it would be to compare any other line with 
Heremon." 

THE ANCIENT PEDIGREE OF THE HEOGHY FAMILY. 
(short extract) 

1. MiLESius, King of Spain. 

2. Heremon, his son ; he and his brother Hebcr were jointly the first 

Milesian monarchs of Ireland ; they began to reign a.m. 3500, or 
before Christ, 1699. After Heber was slain by Heremon, b.c. 
1698, Heremon reigned singly for fourteen years, during which 
time a certain colony, called by the Irish Cruithneaigh, in English 
«' Cruthneans," or Picts, arrived in Ireland, and requested Heremon 
to assign them a part of the country to settle in, which he refused ; 
but, giving them as wives the widows of the Tuatha-de-Danans slain 
in battle, he sent them with a strong party of his own forces to 
conquer the country then called "Alba," but now Scotland, con- 
ditionally that they and their posterity should be tributary to the 
monarchs of Ireland. Heremon died B.C. 1683, and was succeeded 
by three of his four sons, named Muimne, Luigne, and Laighean, 
who reigned jointly for three years, and were slain by their Hebe- 
rian successors. 

Muimne was buried at Cruachan (meaning, in Irish, a little hill), 
or Croaghan, situated near Elphin, in the county of Roscommon. 
In the early ages Croaghan became the capital of Connaught, and a 
residence of the ancient kings of Ireland ; and at Croaghan the 
states of Connaught held conventions to make laws and inaugurate 
their kings. There, too, about a century before the Christian era, 
the monarch Eochy Feidlioch (of this stem) erected a royal resi- 
dence and a great rath, called *♦ Rath- Cruachan," after his queen, 
Cruachan Croidheirg {^Croidheirg meaning, in Irish, a rising heart), 
mother of Maud, the celebrated Queen of Connaught, who, wear- 
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ing on her head '< Aison," or golden crown, seated in her gilded 
war-chariot, surrounded by several other war-chariots, commanded 
in person, like the ancient queens of the Amazons, her Connaught 
forces, in the memorable seven years' war against the Red Branch 
Knights of Ulster, who were commanded by King Connor 
MacNessa, as mentioned in the ancient records by Connellen. 

From Heremon, the youngest of the three brothers, were descended one 
hundred and fourteen sole monarchs of Ireland ; ... all the kings of Scot- 
land from Fergus Mor MacEarcarron to the Stuarts, and the kings and queens 
of England from Henry II. down to the present time. . . . The Milesian 
invasioji took place Anno Mundi 3005. (King Solomon was building the 
temple in Jerusalem at this time.) In manuscript Vol. F, 3, 16, in the 
Library of Trinity College, Dublin, we read that MacDonleve O'Heoghy 
was King of Ulidia (now Ulster) in 1 172 a.d. ... In February, 1177 
A.D., Sir John de Courcy, Sir Armorie St. Lawrence, Sir Roger le Poer, 
twenty-two knights and three hundred foot soldiers, and many of the Irish 
(according to Lord Lyttleton) marched from Dublin to Ulster, which they 
captured. Thus the MacDonleve O'Heoghy princes lost their possessions 
by this English invasion. 



4. 



Unber of "Blames 



Hiiber ot mames 



Superior figures after names indicate the generations. Names in italics denote the change 
by marrriage 

A 

Ambercrombie, Mrs., 141 

Applegate, Mr., 115 

Armor, Robert, 161 

Armstrong, Brigadier-General, 101 

Atcheson, Rev. A., 116 

B 

Backus, Rev. W. W., 115 

Bailey, William, 51 

Baldy, Monsr., 171 

Bard, Richard, 83 

Bardes, Lord des, 173 

Barnes, Colonel, 111 

Barton, Rev. Thomas, 59, 64 

Beaver, John F., 133 

Bedora, Marie- Amande de, 173 

Beman, Jacob, 48 

Bernarddou, Honorat de, 171 

Bigham, Robert, 105 

Bigler, William, 108 

Birney, James G., 21 

Black, Adam, 154 

Blunt, General, 23, 109 

Boucher, Marie-Louise, 173 

Boyd, Robert, 35, 130 

Bradley, James, 157 

Braque, Elizabeth, Countess de, 173 

Marquis de, 16 
Breckenridge, H. M., 48 
Brisben, William, 1G6 
Brison, John, 68 
Brown, Isaac B., 157 

Mary (Jones), 39, 41 
Brust, James, 51 

179 



Hn^ex of Ulames 



Buchanan, James, 85 
Bultine, d'Ane, 170 

Jaque, 170 

Judie, 170 
Burkhalter, Rev. E. R., 116 
Burr, Aaron, 48 
Butler, Benjamin F., 25 



C 

Calaghan, Timothy, 137 
Campbell, Alexander, 32 

Isabella {King), 82, 164 
Carlisle, James, 72, 117, 145 

Rachel, 144 

Rachel McMasters, 118 

S., 139, 141, 143, 144 
Carney, Thomas, 22, 108 
Carothers, Robert, 141 
Carpenter, Mrs. J. McF., 8 
Carson, Thomas, 83 
Cavet, Peggy (Huffhey), 78 
Chalfant, Ananias, 78 

Thomas, 78 
Chambre, Bertrand de, 173 

Cecille de, 173 

Jean de, 173 

Jean- Alexandre de, 173 

Louis-Marie de, 173 

Paul-Jaques de, 173 

Pierre-Fran9oise de, 173 

Th^r^se-Elizabeth de, 173 
Chorel, Francis, 173 

Marguerite, 173 
Christy, A. J., 51 
Clay, Henry, 70 
Clemson, 161 

Clermont, Philibert de, 17 
Cleveland, Grover, 50 
Clevier, Jean de, 170 
Clugston, Betsy (McMasters), 70, 71 
Collins, Hallie (Larimer), 37, 38, 115 
Coltart, Mary Jean (Morris), 118 
Colyer, Daisy Dean (Larimer), 39 
Connellen, 176 
Connor MacNessa, 176 
Conte, Marie le, 170 

i8o 



In^cx of manics 



Cooke, (McCurdy), 55, 58 

Cot6, Lucille, 28, 31 

Dr. Marcellon, 28 
Courcy, Sir Jolin de, 75, 176 
Covode, Hon. John, 20 
Cowgill, Henry, 149 
Cozine, Cornelius, 124 
Craig, Isaac, 68 
Crawford, Ann (McCurdy), 57 

Colonel James, 105 
Creighton, Ann" (McCurdy), 56, 57, 59, 64, 166 

Barbara, 63, 165, 166 

Catherine^ {Hamilton), 64 

Margaret' (Irwin), 64, 165, 166 

Martha', 64, 165, 166 

Mary' (Lightner; Skiles), 64, 165 

William', 63, 165, 166 
Cretin, Guillaume, 63 
Crichton, James, 63 

Robert, 63 

Sir William, 63 
Croon, William, M.D., 18 
Cruachan Croidheirg, 175 
Cunningham, Elizabeth, 82, 162 

John, 82, 150, 163 

Colonel Robert, 76, 78, 82, 106, 162 
Curry, William, 141 

D 

Damas, Joseph Fran9ois, 16 

Davison, Samuel, 141 

Dean, Maria, 34 

Decau, Lucas, 170 

De Hass, John Philip, 102 

Delahayze, Tho., 171 

Demorest, Rev. Dr., 16 

Denny, Ebenezer, 68 

Denver, General, 23 

Dilworth, Leila Addison (Jones), 39, 40, 117 

Dobbin, Rev. Dr. A., 56, 57 

Dorsett, Mr., 28 

Duff, , 50 

Annie, 144 

James, 35, 129 

John, 145 

Rev. John W., 72, 117, 144 

Sarah Carn (McMasters), 68, 71, 72 



1ln^ex of Ulamee 



Duncan, Alexander, 160 

David, 137 

James, 130, 131, 156 

PoUy, 137 

Seth, 122 
Dunlap, Mary E. (Larimer), 37, 39, 115 

William H., 38 
Dunwoody, Hugh, 125 
Durham, Dr. A. R., 59 

£ 

Earle, (Hughey), 78 

Eddie, John, 154 
Edie, Samuel, 122 
Edwards, Fred. W., 147 
Egle, Dr. William H., 101 

Elliott, , 37 

EUmaker, Watson, 8 

Emile, De Paul, 16 

Eochy Feidlioch, 175 

Ernest, Mathew, 68 

Eschenberg, Bertha (Larimer), 38 

Ewing, Brigadier-General, 101 



Fergus Mor MacEarcarron, 176 
Flattery, Lucas, 116 

Margaret {Larimer), 38, 40, 116 
Flemming, Lydia {Larimer), 36 

Samuel, 36 
Freeman, John McFaden, 106 

Robert McCurdy, 106 
Fullerton, Humphrey, 36 

Mary {Larimer), 36 
Fulton, Mary, 118 

Robert, 57, 118 



Galey, Thomas, 8 

Galbraith, Robert, 138 

Gallagher, George, 39 

Geary, John W., 58 

Genestre, Marguerite de Najac de, 171 

Gilliland, William, 36, 124 

GiUion, Gilame, 170 

Glen, David, 106 

182 



1ln^cx of IRanies 



Gough, John B., 32 

Gray, Elizabeth Chalfant, 116 

Jennie M. (Larimer), 38 

Joseph, 111 

Laura C. (Larimer), 37, 40, 116 

William, 68, 116 
Greeley, Horace, 22, 32 
Greenwalt, Captain, 102 
Grove, John, 136 
Guthrie, James, 136 



Hall, Jane (Larimer), 36 
Halleck, Henry W., 25 
Hamilton, Calvin, 8, 51, 110 

Duncan, 139, 143 

James, 81, 157 

James, Jr., 166 

John, 51, 64, 153 

Joseph, 51, 110 

William Sheakley, 110 
Hanna, Charles, 67 
Harrison, Benjamin, 50 

William Henry, 19, 20 
Haslitt, William, 139 
Hayden, John, 48 
Hayes, , 78 

Robert, 156 

Susanna (Sheakley), 51 
Heber, Fionn, 174, 175 
Heremon, 174, 175, 176 

Herron, (McMasters), 71 

Hill, Adam, 51 
Hilliard, Charles M., 38 

Laura^ 40 

Mary', 40 

Raymond^ 40 

Thomas% 40 

W. Henry Raymond, 38, 40, 117 
Hindman, William, 132 
Holmes, Rev. Dr., 117 
Horbach, Abram, 19, 20 
Horner, Da^id, 155, 156 
Houston, Sam, 32 
Hughes, Rev. Watson, 29, 36 
Hughey, Ann' (Chalfant), 78, 146 

183 



tn^cx of Ulames 



Hughey, Elizabeth King' (Lic/htcap), 78, 146 

EphraimS 76, 77, 106, 149, 151, 153 

Jane' {Hayes), 78 

Jean=, 77, 82, 150, 151 

Jean' (dial f ant), 78, 146 

Jolln^ 76, 77, 78, 105, 116, 146, 147, 149, 151, 153 

John^ (s. Ephraim), 78 

John^ (s. John), 78, 146 

Josephs 75, 77, 78, 97, 147, 149, 150, 152 

Joseph' (s. Ephraim), 78 

Joseph' (s. John), 78, 146 

Patrick', 77, 150 

RacheP (McMasters), 33, 68, 70, 71, 72, 78, 115, 
116, 118, 139, 142, 144, 146 

Rachel' (Shaw), 78 

Robert, 77 

Robert', 78, 146 

Samuel', 77, 150 

William', 78, 146 

WillisonS 78 
Hunter, Rachel McMasters, 118 
Hunting, Edward L., 38 
Huston, Captain, 89 

I 
Ir, 174 

Irvine, James, 101 
Irwin, Jane (Larimer), 38 

Jean (Hughey), 75, 77, 78, 97, 151 

Jean (McMasters), 68, 71, 137, 138 

John, 21, 137 

Margaret (Agnew), 64, 165 

Captain Moses, 97, 152 

Robert, 97 

Samuel, 64, 165 

William, 64, 77, 150, 165 
Ithell, Benedict, 18 
Izard, Mark N., 108 



J 

Jenkins, Margaret (Sheakley), 50, 51 

Moses, 130, 154 
Jewett, M. M., 28 
Johnston, Andrew, 126 

John. 35, 130 

Samuel, 135 

184 



1ln^ex of Ulamce 



Johnston, William, 35, 130 

William F., 108 
Jones, Benjamin F., 34, 72, lt5 

Eliza Goshorne, 115 

Fannie Larimer", 38 

Jacob A., 115 

Mary McMasters" (HiUiard), 38, 40, 117 

Samuel, 139 

Thomas Mifflin, 31, 34, 37, 38, 115, 117 

Thomas Mifflin", 39, 41 

Thomas Mifflin^ 41 

William Larimer", 39, 40, 117 



Kennedy, Jane {Uughey), 78 

William, 78 
King, Ann^ {Nelson), 82, 163 

AnnS 82 

David, 83 

Elizabeth^ {Hughey), 76, 77, 78, 82, 116, 163 

Elizabeth', 82 

Eliza Jane (Bard), 83 

Emeline, 83 

George^, 82, 83, 163 

George', 83 

Hugh', 82 

Hugh Davidson, 72, 117, 118, 142 

James^ 82, 163 

James', 83 

John, 142 

Rev. Dr. John=, 76, 82, 84-90, 106, 162 

John' (s. George), 83 

John' (s. Robert), 83 

John' (s. William), 82 

Margaret^ 83 

Mary= {McLaughlin), 82, 163 

Nancy' {Carson), 83 

Nancy {McCurdy), 57, 59 

RacheP {Snodgrass), 82, 163 

Rachel', 82 

Robert, 145 

Roberts 81, 84, 93, 157, 158, 162, 163, 164 

Roberts 82, 106, 163 

Robert' (s. George), 83 

Robert' (s. Robert), 83, 107 

Robert' (s. William), 82 

185 



linger of lllamc9 



King, Rose, 83 

Sampson', 82 

Sampson S.% 82 

Susannah- (Cunningham), 82, 1( 

Thomas, 83 

Thomas', 82 

Victor, 35, 57 

Washington, 83 

William, 83 

WilUam^ 82, 162, 163, 164 

Willis Larimer, 118, 144 
Kinghart, Henry, 18, 121, 122 
Kissinger, John, 155 
Kumler, Rev. Dr. J. P. E., 116, 117 
Kunkle, Joseph, 146 



La Ferte, Louise (Larimer), 173 

Laighean, 175 

Lane, Hon. James H., 26, 108, 109 

Larimer, Annie E."* (Jones), 8, 31, 34, 37, 38, 115, 117 

Annie E.« (Gallagher), 39 

Ann Jane* (Hart; Kemp), 37, 132, 133 

Arthur Edwin', 40 

Cassius', 31, 32, 37, 40, 109, 110, 116 

Cassius", 40 

Catherine, 19, 35, 122, 129 

Catherine* (Flemming), 36, 132 

Charles^ 38 

Cyrus", 38 

Edwin Jones', 39 

Edwin King', 8, 32, 37, 39, 115 

Elizabeth' (Boyd), 19, 35, 130 

Elizabeth (Sterrett), 36 

F^ank^ 38 

Genevieve', 39 

George*, 36, 132, 133 

George' (s. James Irwin), 38 

George' (s. John), 37 

George' (s. William), 32, 38, 40, 116 

Hamilton*, 36, 38, 132 

H. K., 145 

Helen", 28, 40 

James Irwin*, 37, 38, 72, 117, 132, 133, 144, 145 

Jean- (Larimer), 18, 35, 122 

John, 35, 121, 122, 123 



1ln^cx of matnes 



Larimer, JohnS 18, 35, 122, 135 
Johns 36, 37, 132, 133 
John\ 38, 110, 142 

John McMastersS 32, 37, 38, 109, 110, 115, 142 
John McMasters", 38 
John Taylors 38 
Josephs 28, 40 
Joseph Alexanders 39 
Joseph McMastersS 28, 32, 38, 40, 116, 145 
Julia" (Pierce), 37 
Kings 38 

Margaret^ (Mcllvaine), 18, 35 
Margaret (Duf), 19, 35, 129 
Margaret' (Taylor), 36, 132 
Martha^ (Marchaiid), 37 

Martha McNease' (FuUerton; Hughes), 29, 36, 133 
Mary^' (Mcllvaine), 18, 35 
MaryS 36, 129, 134 
Mary^ (Mcllvaine), 19, 35, 122 
Mary Dunlap" (Phipps), 39 
Mary Elizabeth* (McFarlane), 37, 132, 133 
Mary Fullerton" (McClelland), 38 
Nancy' (Johnston), 19, 35, 130 
Nancy" (Elliott), 37 
Nancy" (Hunting), 38 
RacheP (Dunlap), 38, 118, 144 
Rachel Hughey" (Mello7i), 7, 8, 35, 37, 39, 40, 115, 

118, 144 
Rachel Hughey" (Miller), 31, 40, 116, 118 
Rachel McMasters, 118 
Rachel McMasters' (Hilliard), 38 
Roberts 7, 18, 19, 35, 121, 122, 123, 134 
Roberts 18, 35, 122 
Roberts 28, 40 
RushS 37 

Sarah, 18, 19, 35, 121, 122 
Sidney' (Johnston), 19, 35, 130 
Thomas, 7 

ThomasS 18, 19, 35, 105, 122, 123, 129, 130, 131, 135 
ThomasS 19, 35, 123, 129 
ThomasS 36, 37, 132, 133 

Thomas McMastersS 8, 32, 37, 39, 109, 110, 116 
Victors 36, 124, 134 
WashingtonS 36 

Williams 18, 35, 36, 122, 123, 134, 135, 136 
Williams 19, 35, 36, 47, 48, 51, 72, 115, 117, 129, 130, 
132, 133, 134, 153 

187 



Unbex of Ulames 



Larimer, WilliamS 20, 22, 23, 27, 36, 37, 107, 109, 110, 115, 
132, 140, 142, 144, 145 

William", 37 

WiUiam', 40 

William C", 40 

William Dunlap', 39 

William H. H.\ 8, 27, 29, 31, 32, 37, 39, 109, 110, 115 

William Henry", 39 
La Rinnemer, Jan, 170 

Marie, 170 
Larremar, Barthelemi, 173 

Claire, 173 
Law, John, 174 
Lawrence, Charles, 28 
Lee, Robert E., 47 
Leech, Jerome, 52 
Len, William de, 170 
Lesley, Widow, 125 
Lightcap, Solomon, 78 
Lightner, George, 64 

Isaac, 64, 165, 166 

Madeline LaRue, 64 

Nathaniel, 64 
Lincoln, Abraham, 24, 25, 26 
Linnber, Susanna (Sheakley), 51 
Lippincott, Cyrus P., 117 

Sarah Ann, 117 
Loches, Comte de, 16 
Logan, William, 133 
Long, Lydia (Sheakley), 52 
Loomis, L. C, 8 
Loremarius, Goscelinus, 169 
Lorimer, Alexander, 170 

Baldwin, 170 

Durand, 169 

Hugh, 170 

John, 18, 170 

Katherine, 170 

Mary (Croon), 18 

Matthew, 170 
Lorimier, Antoine Charles, 169, 173 * 

Elizabeth, 16, 17 

Jane de, 172 

John Claude, 173 

Laurent, 173 

Le Sieur de, 17 

Lord William de, 169, 172 
i88 



Unbex of Ulaines 



Lorimore, Alexander, 17 
Lormier, Anne, 170 

Anthoine, 170 

Catherine, 170 

Ester, 170 

Frangoise, 170 

Jaques, 170 
Lorrimer, Thomas, 130 
Luigne, 175 
Lyttleton, Lord, 176 

M 
McBirney, Rev. E. S., 115 
McClellan, George B., 25 
McClelland, R. P., 38 
McClurg, Alexander, 139 
McCreedy, William, 124 
McCuUough, Samuel, 141 
McCurdy, Anna Crawford' {Upton), CO 

Archibald, 112 

Archibald^ 59, 112, 161 

Charles M.^ 8, 60 

Daniel, 55, 112 

David, 55, 112 

Elizabeth Marshall' (Scott), 60 

Graced 60 

Hugh=, 59, 161 

JamesS 55, 56, 58, 112, 160, 161 

James% 59, 112, 161 

James^ 59, 60, 155 

John, 55, 58, 112 

John KingS 57, 59 

Margaret'^ (Sheakley), 47, 50, 51, 57, 59, 155 . 

Martha^ {Taggart), 59, 155 

Mary^ {Thompson), 59, 155 

Mary McLean^ 60 

Nancy (Siuope), 59 

Nancy' {Paxton), 59, 155 

Nancy King^ (Smith), 59 

Patrick, 55, 112 

Robert^, 56, 57, 59, 64, 105, 124, 125, 126, 154, 156, 161, 166 

Robert^ 59, 155 

Robert% 57, 58, 59, 60 

Sarah' (Durham), 59 

Virginia Helen', 8, 60 

William, 55, 112 

William^ 57, 59, 154, 155 
189 



Unbcx of Ulames 



McDermut, Joseph, 78 
McDowell, Elizabeth {King), 82 

John, 83 

Margaret {King), 82, 83 
McFarland, Colonel, 110 
McFarlane, Andrew L., 37 

Mrs. Louis, 8 
MacGregor, Rev. Dr. J. W., 116 
McGurley, Elizabeth (McC'urdy), 59 

Rev. Dr., 59 
McHullon, James, 153 
Mcllvain, Captain George, 63 
Mcllvaine, Andrew, 18, 35, 121 

George, 166 

John, 105 

Moses, 35, 122, 129, 130 
McKnight, A. A., 110 
McLaughlin, Ann, 82 

Ann (King), 81, 93, 162, 163 

George, 82 

James, 83 

John, 83 

Mary, 83 
McLean, Archibald, 126 
McMasters, Caroline, 145 

David, 145 

Eleanor*, 68, 72 

Eliza Ann= (King), 8, 72, 117, 118, 140, 142, 144, 
145 

James, 137 

James*, 73 

Jane' (Osborn), 72, 117, 140, 142, 145 

Jennie*, 72 

John, 67, 137 

John=, 67, 68, 71 

John^ 21, 67, 69, 71, 106, 136, 138 

John*, 31, 34, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 78, 115, 116, 137, 
138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 146 

John', 72, 117, 139, 140, 143, 146 

Joseph*, 68, 70, 71, 136, 141, 143 

Joseph', 73, 141, 142 

Leonora, 145 

Mary' (Jones), 8, 70, 75, 141, 145 

Nancy' (Larimer), 37, 38, 72, 117, 141, 142, 145 

Patricks 67, 71 

Patricks 67, 71 

Rachel, 145 



190 



tn^cx ot IRatncs 



Singer, Christiana (Larimer), 3(i, 37 
Skiles, Alexander, 64 

Henry, 165 

Mary Ann, 64, 165 

William, 106 
Skyles, Jane (King), 83 
Slaymaker, Henry, 63 
Smith, Edwin F., 59 

Colonel James, 85 

Janet (King), 83 

Jonathan, 149 

Rev. Sampson, 82 
Snodgrass, Alexander, 82 

James, 149, 153 
Snyder, Governor, 106 
Stair, Anna Kate Bentz (Swope), 60 
Stam, J. F., 166 
Steel, Samuel, 163 
Sterrett, B. F., 36 
Stevens, Thaddeus, 46, 57 
Stevenson, George, 68 

Samuel C, 134 

WUliam, 141 
Stewart, Fannie (Larimer), 37, 40. 116 

John, 143 

L., 139 
Stibbs, H. B., 116 
Stillman, E. Maynicke, 170, 174 
St. Lawrence, Sir Armorie, 176 
Stones, John, 154 
Stover, Simon P., 131 
Strowbridge, Ann (Kennedy), 78 
Stuart, Jennett, 112 
Swope, John A., 59 

Samuel McCurdy, 59, 60 

T 

Tackier, Rev., 115 
Taggart, Captain, 1 1 1 

Samuel, 59, 155 
Tanquay, I/Abbe Cyprien, 173 
Taylor, Elizabeth, 36 

Frances (Larimer), 38 

Harriet (Larimer), 36, 38 

Isaac, 36 

Margaret (Larimer), 38 

Mary Hill, 116 

195 



InDei ot Ulames 



Taylor, Mary Ilill {Mellon), 31, 39, 41, 116 

Mathew, 116 
Thompson, John, 138 

Robert, 59, 155 
Thornton, Anne, 18 

Anne (Lomnore), 17, 18 

John, 18 

Robert, 18 
Torbett, John, 106 
Tracy, Brigadier-General, 101 

TJ 
Upton, Geor<.'e A., GO 

V 
Vandergrift, J. J., 28 
Varney, Edward, 116 

Luella (Larimer), 37, 39, 116 
Vignoles, Ch. de, 171 

J. Sperandieu de, 171 
Vincent, Thomas McCurdy, 112 

W 
Wall, Michael, 143 
WaUace, David, 137 

Esther (Sheakley), 51 

Mary (Sheakley), 51 
Wanbaugh, John H., 136 
Washington, General George, 47, 103 
Wayne, General Anthony, 103, 103 
Webb, Mary, 34 
Wejtner, Lewis, 105 
West, Benjamin, 118 

Mary, 118 
Wharton, Thomas, 103 
Whitfield, George, 56 
Whitsett, R. E., 28 
Wilkins, John, 68 
Wilson, Hugh, 124, 125, 126 

Thomas, 124, 125, 126 
Work, Robert, 124, 155 



Young, Rev. J. A., 116 
William, 139 

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